Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grade Inflation...
...committee members are looking at the issue from two angles: grade inflation and grade compression. Basically, the grades' upward trend (inflation) leaves professors a smaller range of acceptable grades, making it difficult to differentiate between students...
Some committee members proposed showing the distribution of grades in a class on transcripts. Others have advocated listing the average grade of a course on the transcripts. Right now these are just ideas, but some kind of action is likely this year...
However, if Robertson really looked at the lessons of the past, he would recognize what every grade schooler is taught: that the earliest Americans often came to this land to escape religious persecution. Our founders, from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, enshrined the principles of a secular state into our Constitution. Indeed, it was Jefferson who first discussed the "wall of separation" between church and state...
...idea grew from a visit that Lisa Quiroz, TFK's general manager, made to her old grade school on Staten Island, New York. She found that kids were offered the same sources of news that she had used as a child. "Teachers expressed a dire need for something current," she says. TFK is addressing that need...