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...writing in response to Thursday night's forum (3/11/93) at the Institute of Politics on grade inflation. In particular, I am reacting to a comment made by panelist Dianne Reeder '93. Speaking in support of grade deflation, Reeder quipped that Harvard students, quite accustomed to getting 100 percent straight A's in high school, are unhappy with only 70 percent A's at Harvard...
...Dianne Reeder '93, editor emeritus of The Harvard Salient, said students would benefit from grade deflation...
...Reeder said lower grades would not hurt students applying to jobs and graduate programs. If we adopted a policy that ended grade inflation." She said, "the world would know...
...think the Core is the worst of both worlds,"says Dianne M. Reeder '93, editor of the Salient."On one hand, it offers no set body of knowledge,no common experience to draw on. Also, thedistribution situation is no good because we can'ttake departmental courses...
...Like Reeder, prominent educators--includingformer secretary of education William J. Bennettand Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38--have writtenthat all undergraduates should study the so-calledclassics of Western civilization...