Maintaining Standards in Teaching

To the Editor:

In "The Teaching Equation That Didn't Add Up" (March 29), Robin Wilson writes that "a key factor" in the poor performance of one professor's students at Temple University is "the changing undergraduate population. Whereas 45 percent of high-school graduates attended college in 1960, 63 percent did in 2000." In this, she echoes David Adamany, Temple's president. ... This is a particularly insidious and effective silencing strategy, as it convicts tough teachers by

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