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Harvard Law School faculty rejects a proposed pass-fail system designed to increase student satisfaction. The proposal was prompted after a McKinsey consulting group study last year described student dissatisfaction with the grading system.
When Mansfield first announced his change in grading policy, his "backhanded benevolence" was lauded by The Crimson editorial staff and students. Even those who had supported his stubborn refusal to inflate grades praised him for not wanting to penalize the brave students who take his classes.
"You've got to be constantly grading and raising the bar. We keep too many people who aren't needed on the payroll too long," he added.
Harvey “C-minus” Mansfield, long known for his rigorous grading, shocked the campus with a new grading trick this year. Voicing adamant aversion to grade inflation, a “glaring flaw in American education,” Mansfield announced at the beginning of the...
As the semester ends, Mansfield says that he likes the way his grading experiment worked out, and he might do it again next year.