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I thought grade inflation was already alive and healthy

2008-05-20 7:44 am 1 Comment

This has to be the dumbest policy to come along in a while. Besides a fundamental misunderstanding of how grades are assigned (hint: its not a random number between 0 and 100), it minimizes a teacher's input and leeway into how to grade students.
When I was a TA, granted these were college students, the only reason...