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Unfortunately, current grading practices fail miserably at providing meaningful feedback on student work, and as a result, grades as pedagogical tools are ineffective at best and useless at worst. Because 86 percent of grades were B or better last year, professors and TFs were effectively limited to four grades—B, B-plus, A-minus and A—when evaluating all but the weakest student work. Not only are there too few grades to be precise, but worse yet, the meaning of those grades is utterly unclear...
If the latter is deemed correct, the consequences of giving Harvard students lower grades would be large, because when grades are based on curves, the emphasis shifts from one of academic excellence to one of academic competition, changing the meaning of grades from achievement to “winning.?...
Olympic organizers, more determined than ever to market the meaning, began talking about the Games as a chance for restoring America's hope. There were recollections of the 1980 U.S. hockey team that won its proxy war against the Soviets, who themselves were then at war in Afghanistan. These Games...
Miller says he has got a grip on other variables in skiing as well. "It's not about controlling aggression; it's about getting everything else in the right line," he explains, meaning things like equipment, fitness (he blew out a knee last season) and start position--the higher the...
Even before Sept. 11, it was apparent that Saudi Arabia was on a dangerous demographic and economic path. According to State Department figures, it has an annual population growth rate of 3 percent, meaning that its population is due to double in less than 25 years. Meanwhile, its share of...