Word: school
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...attended both high school and university in the United States and abroad. I can attest to the grade inflation here; the exact same A- paper at Harvard received a 69 percent at a university overseas. I worked extremely hard on the paper, which is why I was rewarded with an A-. The professor at the institution abroad told me my paper was unoriginal and boring...
This sounds very similiar to the South African government's justification for keeping black students out of white apartheid institutions. Bill Gates was a bad student--he never even finished school. In fact even Einstein, one of the smartest men, was a bad student at one time during his life. But does this make them stupid...
...else do you pay $1,300 a month in law school debt? You have to get a job that helps you pay it," Barrios said...
...kids don't know how easy you have it. Back in my day, we walked to school, uphill both ways, in the snow or rain or sleet, mind you - and on top of all that, we even took our own tests. That was in the days before teachers and administrators at 32 New York City public schools allegedly started "helping" their students with statewide tests, when kids actually had to know something about reading, writing and arithmetic to get passed to the next grade. For the last five years, claims special investigator Edward Stancik, some kids have just waltzed into...
Standards among America's public schools have been pushed relentlessly - some say unrealistically - upward in recent years, fueled by parent frustration over their children's poor performance and administrators' embarrassment over their schools' reputations. But while higher standards are an admirable goal, they can hurt the students they were meant to help. "There's an argument to be made that the bar has been raised too high, too quickly," says TIME writer Jodie Morse. "And although nothing excuses cheating by teachers, we have a responsibility to look into what kind of pressure they're under to have their students improve...