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Grade Inflation in Higher Education

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the closer-to-fine dept.

ProfBooty writes "A recent Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post on grade inflation by a Professor at Duke. Obviously this guy doesn't teach engineering courses. Quite honestly, I can't understand why science and engineering majors are held to one standard for grades and academics versus humanities majors even in the same school. Perhaps it is because people's lives hang in the balance when they interact with the products and structures designed by science/engineering students. Perhaps it is because they aren't worried about hurting students self esteem? It really is too bad the media doesn't report enough on education from the technical side."

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  1. make the standards for Humanities and libarts by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    higher...then we won't have a bunch of idiots running around thinking they know everyting becasue they got an A in english.

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  2. More Slackers by ShelfWare · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Today's classes, as a result, suffer from high absenteeism and a low level of student participation. In the absence of fair grading, our success in providing this country with a truly educated public is diminished. The implications of such failure for a free society are tremendous.

    Schools are just increasing the amount of cry-babies that are out there in the world. It pisses me off about how many people don't want any responsibility for their actions and just want to be told what they want to hear.

    I already work with enough slackers as is, this is just producing more.

  3. Wimps by SirLanse · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It shows the author is a wimp, without the courage of his convictions. It shows that our educational system is being taken over by left wingers bent upon destroying our country, while making wimps 'feel good about themselves' The DOE needs to become a branch of the DOD! Our future national security rests on how well our childred can defend the counry.