Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a reasonable argument for why stellar undergraduates should be allowed to grade objective work in elementary math or science courses, where a single answer key exists: they can probably do the job as well as any graduate student, and there is a shortage of available graduate students. Less defensible is the argument that these undergraduates should be allowed to teach courses in sections to other undergraduates; nevertheless, this practice is widely accepted in the computer science department, and it occurs in the natural sciences...
Jonathan A. Yang '02, who came down with a high fever and excessive drowsiness of Tuesday, said his illness caused him to miss his first class since fourth grade...
...standing here on my bully pulpit railing against "lax academic standards"--not I, one of the beneficiaries of grade inflation! I suppose I'm struggling more with the idea of Truth, at least in the context of academic writing--the sort of writing that occupies each of us at least for the years we are here...
...Stanford the median grade is said to be anA-. At Harvard it's a B+. So grades are not a verydiscriminating indicator of excellence in academicperformance," he said...
...this letter, talk of how repentant I meant to be during those few hours of service, enumerate my transgressions and show you that I do not deserve "the serve decree". But I figure that if I could convince Harvey C. Mansfield '53 to change my Moral Reasoning grade from a C+ to an A-, certainly I can get you to look at this a little differently...