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“Grades have been going up since they were invented in the late 19th century,” O’Keefe says.
O’Keefe insists that the changes were not made “because we wanted to look good in the New York Times.” Rather, he argues, it was a shift “motivated by concerns from faculty and students that wanted Latin honors to...
“A world where we’re giving honors to 90 percent of the class is a world where nobody’s getting honors that are meaningful at all,” O’Keefe says. Now, he reasons, each level of honors has that...
As O’Keefe points out, the new rules may affect the academic choices students make, such as whether or not they will write a thesis, or whether they will take harder classes. That’s why members of the Class of 2005 are upset—they...
No one can say for sure how these changes will affect students’ choices about their academics. Fundamentally, though, the issue seems to be about risk, and how willing Harvard students will be to challenge themselves in the face of higher standards. Potentially, Bernstein says, the new system could...