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...believe that the primary purpose of grades is to reward students for the quality of their work, not to directly compare them to one another (although that is an inevitable side-effect). Many disagree, and argue that grade inflation is a problem only because grades are so compressed—because the current range of grades makes it difficult for professors to adequately differentiate between students. They have proposed adding new grades to Harvard’s system to combat grade compression. Though we disagree with this premise, it is worthwhile to explain why many...
Because teachers are unable to distinguish effectively between students’ quality of work when almost 50 percent of the grades are A or A-minus, some have said Harvard should add a grade of A-plus. An A-plus, presumably, would allow professors to reward truly exceptional work while leaving the rest of the grading system intact...
Along the same lines, some have proposed to add an intermediate grade between an A-minus and a B-plus, corresponding to a 13 on Harvard’s grading scale. This, supposedly, would fight the current compression of the grade spectrum and give professors another option to reward excellent work. But this also addresses the symptom, and not the cause, of grade inflation. Harvard has enough grades—12 in all, from A to E with all the pluses and minuses in between—that it would have no trouble distinguishing between students if the system were...
General Pervez Musharraf is ready to collect his reward. Pakistan's leader will meet with President Bush at the White House today, and he can expect considerable U.S. economic and political support to come his way for the strategic choices he has made since September 11. The U.S. will help, because the alternative is to let the government of a nuclear-armed state collapse...
...vitality of this state is right along that border--the place of greatest reward, but also the place of greatest risk." That is where the plot is still being written. Like all David Lynch movies, it will have many strange twists before...