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...We’ve heard complaints from students and faculty both that the end of the semester was too rushed and compressed??whether that’s really indicative of the broad feeling across the community or whether that’s really just a couple of vocal folks, we don’t know,” Harris says. “That’s why we did the survey...
...with exams occurring after the holiday season, are being forced to adapt their syllabi to a shorter semester. In an e-mail, Literature professor Leo Damrosch wrote that he has tried this year to extend due dates for term papers past the end of a “painfully compressed?? reading period...
...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...
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