Summary Of Why Colleges Shower Their Students With A's By Brent Staples

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Zalak Patel Critique: 6 “Why colleges shower their students with A’s” is written by Brent Staples. He talks about some colleges are giving A’s to their students. Some colleges have their grade point average about C. He even says that their one way to stop to the grades rising. All courses should get equal weight so they have equal impact on their averages. In my Economics class, we all were struggling and we could be able to encode the information. Our professor was sick and she had been canceling our classes back to back. Then one day we all went to complaint about her at the main office. We all went to wanted to pass her class. We were worried about completing the course. Then, we came to know that she had last stage cancer so wouldn’t

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