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Re: Grade Inflation (Was: Student Evaluations of Teaching)



On Sun, 02 Jan 2000 21:35:07 -0500 Ludwik Kowalski
<KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU> writes:
The best approach (implicitly suggested in another message)
would be to establish high $ awards for students with mean
yearly grades of B+ and above. Administrators would fight
the grade inflation to balance finances.

That might work in colleges but what do you suppose would happen
in the publically supported high schools of the country??

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where all of our B+ students would bankrupt the city)