Grade Inflation in Higher Education

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday January 29, 2003 @05:42AM 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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Duke Sucks! by bearclaw · 2003-01-29 06:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Go Terps!

Can't wait to play you guys in Cameron Indoor! :-)

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Re:why do you care so much about spelling by medscaper · 2003-01-29 09:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You bet. I'll be here all week, folks.

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