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...former dean of the college cum Harvard gadfly Harry Lewis is quoted: "I'm very frustrated because we spent an entire year talking about [grade inflation] and not accomplishing anything and then congratulating ourselves like...
...SURVEY found that Yale's Class of 2006 graduated with a median grade point average between 3.6 and 3.7. The paper asked 400 newly minted Elis to anonymously report their GPAs online, and 50% responded. (Props for noting the response rate could skew the results.) The conclusion's right there in the headline: "Poll suggests grade inflation...
...poll certainly suggests that Yale is handing out A's like candy, but inflation? Don't you need historical data to support that? Yale hasn't publicly disclosed any grade stats since 1981, so the YDN's enterprising survey is the first light to be shed on the issue in quite some time. But it's still just a number—a range, at that...
...early childhood education professionals, and a comprehensive program between Harvard’s graduate schools of education, public health, and medicine called the Three-to-Third program. The Three-to-Third program is an initiative to improve reading and math abilities and social and emotional competencies by third grade, using “multidimensional interventions.” “You have to start early,” said Richard Weissbourd, a Graduate School of Education lecturer. “There’s already a significant achievement gap by the time that kids enter kindergarten so we?...
...across the country, those two brands go at it. Which one do you give your kid? It depends on how old your child is, obviously, but as any good supermom will tell you, Baby Einstein is the choice of parents who want their daughter to speak Swahili by seventh grade and go to Harvard. They leave Barbies for people who, they imagine, just want their daughter to have a smile on her face and go to a great state college...