by Publius | May 5, 2021 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Anna Agresti | (Source) In her Advanced Placement government and politics class, a high school student named Anna was assigned to read a New York Times commentary that called the U.S. Constitution “imbecilic.” Many of her peers agreed with this conclusion based on...
by Publius | Dec 16, 2020 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Victor Davis Hanson | (Source) Where did Antifa youth rioting in the streets receive their intellectual and ethical bearings? Why are the First and Second Amendments no longer fully operative? How did the general population become nearly ignorant of their...
by Publius | Nov 25, 2020 | Course and Scholarship Updates
By Catherine Smith | (Source) In an effort to combat racial discrimination the San Diego Unified School District last week announced plans to abolish the traditional grading system, Fox News reports. According to the data, black students received D or F grades 20...
by Publius | Oct 1, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Ronald Lipsman | The grades I just issued in my post-calculus, differential equations course – a sophomore math offering taken mostly by engineering students—followed the usual bell-shaped curve, roughly 10% A’s, 20% B’s, 40% C’s, 20% D’s and 10% F’s. The...
by Prof. Jack | Aug 17, 2012 | Grey Matter
by Janice Fiamengo | “The honeymoon is over.” Instructors who award low grades in humanities disciplines will likely be familiar with a phenomenon that occurs after the first essays are returned to students: Read more…....
