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...persistent complaints of Kenan Professor of Government Harvey “C-minus?? Mansfield ’53 regarding the general grading practices of Harvard teaching fellows and Faculty helped bring about greater outside scrutiny of grade inflation at Harvard. Mansfield’s suggestion that the admission of larger numbers of black students in the 1970s contributed to or initiated this trend earned him the ire of the Black Students’ Association, but his vocal criticism of the number of high grades earned by Harvard students helped draw national media coverage to the numbers of undergraduates...
Lower will do what “C-minus?? didn’t; he’ll correct grade inflation once and for all. But he’ll do it while singing the same old song...
...Last year, in an attempt to provide students with more accurate feedback as to where they stood in his class, “C-minus?? gave each student two grades: one to reflect the inevitably substandard quality of his work and another higher grade to comfortably pad his transcript. This year, in an attempt to give employers and grad schools more accurate feedback as to where students stood in Harvard classes, the ECP recommended giving two evaluations on each student’s transcript: a grade to reflect the (supposed) quality of his work, and the percentage...
...what unfortunate gov. jock can forget that last year, in an attempt to ensure that most students earned Bs, “C-minus?? bound his government sophomore tutorial to an adjusted grading scale. What déja vu then when this year, in an attempt to ensure that most students earn Bs, the ECP recommends binding students to a newly adjusted grading scale...
...conveniently, “C-minus?? had no time to discuss the philosophy of pedagogy when there were numbers to be adjusted, and neither does Lower today. (We’ll give Lower a little slack, because, in addition to grades, he’s also adjusting the number of faculty.) Could it be that Harvard students-hand picked for their anal-retentive, over-achieving zeal-regularly produce the “work whose excellent quality indicates a full mastery of the subject,” the College definition of an A? Would it be surprising...