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...measure comes in response to well-documented grade inflation, at Princeton, Harvard and other elite universities...
...very troubled by the fact that grade inflation is returning, but I think the priority this year is thinking about curriculum reform,” he said...
...interview last week, Summers said that despite his concern about grade inflation, the University is not considering a hard cap on grades and he would not support such a plan...
...think, at least in a Harvard context, simple grade cap proposals run into the difficulty that sometimes courses are taught at two different levels, and it seems unfair for there to be the same grade distribution in the more accelerated and less accelerated versions of the course,” he said. “And what one wants to do is apply some overall pressure against grade inflation without the excessively rigid structure that a fixed curve for all courses provides...
...Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz wrote in e-mail yesterday that addressing grade inflation was not part of the mandate of the ongoing curricular review...