Grade Inflation: It's Time to Face the Facts

By HARVEY C. MANSFIELD

This term I decided to experiment with the grading of my political-philosophy course at Harvard. I am giving each student two grades: one for the registrar and the public record, and the other in private. The official grades will conform with Harvard's

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