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I'm talking, of course, about the latest revival of the "grade inflation" debate, spurred recently by Prof. Harvey "C." Mansfield's short-tempered comment that grades became devalued because professors fear giving low grades to minority students. In addition to the familiar round of inter-ethnic name-calling, this...
Some more productive and fundamental questions to ask about the current value of grades at Harvard would be as follows: Why are grades given in the first place? Who is their expected audience? What does a certain statistical distribution really mean, and is it proper to establish grading policies that...
I was glad to see that Zaheer Ali, in his letter of February 24, 1993 to Dean Jeremy Knowles, comes out against grade inflation, for so I interpret his meaning. Although he favors affirmative action for Blacks in admissions, he opposes affirmative action in grading. Grades should be earned, he...
Panel moderator Alvin I. Bragg Jr 195, the vice-president of the Black Students' Association and chair of the political union, asked participants to concentrate on the issues of the ideal mean grade and on the grading discrepancy between the natural sciences and the humanities.
Becker argued for more professorial involvement in the grading process instead of overall grade deflation.