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...Harvey C. Mansfield...
...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 spring semester that he would assign two sets of grades to the students in Government 1061: “Modern Political Philosophy”--initial grades, centered around a C, would accurately reflect the quality of students’ work and compare them to their peers. The second...
...Mansfield says he didn’t like the pressure to raise grades because students were receiving better marks in all their other classes...
...don’t want to continue punishing students for a situation that is not their fault,” Mansfield says. “I’ve had to adjust my grades upward over the years, and the strain on my conscience has become too great...
...prove his point, Mansfield asked the FAS registrar to compile the grades given out to Harvard students last year. To the surprise of all, the registrar’s records say that 51% of all grades given to Harvard undergraduates were some form of A: 25% were ‘A’s and 25%were...