The New York Times had a fairly long online colloquy over the weekend on a very short study titled “Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing.” Prepared by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School and Samuel R. Sommers of Tuft University’s Department of Psychology, the study appeared in Perspectives on Psychological Science. It […]
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Among the many troubling findings cited by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in Academically Adrift is this remarkable note on grade inflation: —–55 percent of college students have a B+ grade average or higher (3.3 and higher) —–85 percent of college students have a B- grade average or higher (2.7 and higher) Those numbers demonstrate what most everybody […]
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