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High Marks

By The Daily Dish
Aug 18 2008, 4:08 AM ET

Harry Brighouse has a long post arguing that there is little evidence that grade inflation exists or that it is bad. He targets Harvey C- Mansfield. All I can say is that I graded for Harvey. I'll never forget the day I brought my grade sheet in, handed it over, and as he looked over it, he glanced up and said, in his inimitable, mischievous whisper:

"Can we turn any of these B-minuses into C-pluses?"

Yes we can! It was a heroic effort, doomed to failure. But at least we knew the students really wanted to be there.



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