May 16, 2010
A Professor at Louisiana State Is Flunked Because of Her Grades
Photographs by Jackson Hill for The Chronicle
Ms. Homberger confers with students in her lab.
Baton Rouge, La.
On March 25, Dominique G. Homberger gave an exam to her section of Biology 1001, a large introductory course for nonscience majors at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge.
It was the semester's second exam. On the first one, five weeks earlier, the students had bombed. When Ms. Homberger filed her midterm grades, on March 12, more than 60 percent were failing, and not one student had earned an A.
She never had the chance to find out how much they might improve. When she
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