Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next year's council is likely to discuss grade inflation, which the Committee on Undergraduate Education has discussed extensively this year...
...wonder how much of a problem [grade inflation] is," Skocpol said yesterday." Every year people from the admissions office tell us a more outstanding and selective group has been admitted. I want to see how much of the effects that we're seeing are due to an increase in qualification...
...intolerant of my person. I do not suggest that you do as I do (and refrain from applause, the customary form of approval), but I ask simply that you think about where you draw the line between speech and speaker. At Harvard, we have learned to write for a grade, to write what we know others want to hear. Ultimately, however, our public speech is ours and ours alone and as such does not stand apart from us as individuals. I know McGuire only through the written word, but can make the decision not to applaud him on the basis...
...Uninvited, Tony first becomes obsessed with Patricia when he is in the seventh grade, one of the grades Berman taught...
...Today greater than half of all Americans give their local schools a grade of C, D or F," he said...