Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Much has been written lately about grade inflation in American colleges. I am uneasy addressing the topic, having benefited so abundantly from it. But there can be no doubt that this same unwillingness to label anyone as fundamentally unfit lies behind it. Intelligent students at the University of Costa Rica can hardly expect to go through college without failing a couple of courses, some of them two or three times in a row. A friend tells me of a math professor who gives no credit if a problem in a test has an incorrect answer. He then goes back...
...circumstance and that preserving their self-esteem may allow them to stay afloat. On the other hand, there is really no way to keep bad students from doing badly without lowering the standards and keeping the good students from developing their full potential. The record does not help much in settling the issue: The United States is the wealthiest country and its top universities are generally acknowledged to be the best in the world. But many of its schools are downright awful and part of the reason for the success of the United States might be that so many foreign...
...know from experience that tenants working together in a group are much more stronger than an individual trying to deal with this problem alone," Marcotte says...
...City Council plans to hold a "vote in principle" on the issue. EFZ members expect the vote, not tied to a specific bill, to illustrate how much support the issue has in city government...
West also echoed the need for diversity, stating that the anthology injected a "blue note" of much needed "dissonance" into the Harvard community...