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fromFortune
2 weeks agoBillionaire Ken Griffin shares the top traits he looks for when hiring-and warns that schools are failing to prepare applicants | Fortune
Resilience and perseverance are more critical than raw intelligence for success in investing because correct investment decisions occur only about 53–54% of the time.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months agoThe Teacher Evaluation-Grade Inflation Doom Loop
American colleges, especially the most selective ones, are confronting the dual problems of rampant grade inflation and declining rigor. At Harvard, as I wrote recently, the percentage of A grades has more than doubled over the past 40 years, but students are doing less work than they used to. Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point. The scores factor into academics' pay, hiring, and chance to get tenure.
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months agoThe Perverse Consequences of the Easy A
During their final meeting of the spring 2024 semester, after an academic year marked by controversies, infighting, and the defenestration of the university president, Harvard's faculty burst out laughing. As was tradition, the then-dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, had been providing updates on the graduating class. When he got to GPA, Khurana couldn't help but chuckle at how ludicrously high it was: about 3.8 on average. The rest of the room soon joined in, according to a professor present at the meeting.
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