Word: educationã
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...effect, the staff has touted the noble values of liberal education??of rational deliberation, of open dialogue, of mutual respect—in defense of an administration that has undermined those values in its refusal to engage with students and workers—let alone enact a living wage...
...evil,” as he puts it, of grade inflation. The publicity has been spurred in large measure by his theory of why grades have gone up. According to a view stated by Mansfield—most recently in an April 6 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education??there was once a Garden of Eden at Harvard in which professors gave students the grades they deserved. “Everyone knows that C is an average grade,” he says. At some point we stopped evaluating students properly. “When grade inflation...
...Internet stands as a medium uniquely suited to enhancing education??s public sphere. The story of the online world’s success is wide and varied, but a large chunk of it has to do with the free and open dissemination of information—everything from computer software to constitutional documents to daily news stories. Institutions of higher learning would do well to place educational materials among this growing list, not in a for-profit or for-credit manner, but as a resource among resources...