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To: Alighieri who wrote (609009)	4/26/2011 10:07:52 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577098

no it isn't the average grade at harvard is an A minus

To: Alighieri who wrote (609009)	4/26/2011 10:10:28 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577098

Harvard Figures Show Most of Its Grades are A's or B's by Patrick Healy Saying that grade inflation at Harvard University has become a serious problem, school officials took the unusual step yesterday of making public statistics on grades since 1985, revealing that most grades that Harvard awards are A's and B's. In a report sent to all faculty members yesterday, dean of undergraduate education Susan Pedersen said that a Harvard faculty committee plans to develop common guidelines for grading and ''restore a more robust distinction between excellent and good work.'' According to the report, 48.5 of Harvard grades last year were A's and A-minuses, compared with 33.2 percent of grades in 1985. Grades in the three C categories fell from 10 percent in 1985 to 4.9 percent last year. D's and failing grades accounted for less than 1 percent each. Humanities courses awarded a higher percentage of A's and A-minuses than the hard sciences or the social sciences, the report said. High marks are especially common in seminar-style classes with fewer than 25 students: Almost two-thirds of all grades given in humanities seminars are in the A range. The courses with the fewest A's are social-science classes with 75 students or more, in which only a third of grades are A's or A-minuses. Harvard's Educational Policy Committee started reviewing grades early this year, finding that some professors now award A's for average work. A Globe study last month determined that a record 91 percent of Harvard seniors graduated with honors last year, far more than in past decades, thanks to the rising number of A's and B's. Harvard's honors rate was far higher than that of any other Ivy League school, and some officials at Yale, Cornell, and elsewhere derided it as a sign of grade inflation. commondreams.org