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Tuesday, March 25, 2003
New Online Guides Rate Professors - TAMAR LEWIN, NY Times
When Kelaine Conochan, a sophomore at the University of Maryland here, was choosing courses for this semester, she went online to Pick-a-Prof to check out the teachers — and their grading patterns. "In one of the classes I was thinking about, the professor hadn't given a single A," Ms. Conochan said. "And I thought, if there's no chance for me to get an A, I'm not going to take it." Ms. Conochan's consumer-minded approach to her education is not unusual these days: many students see higher education less as a learning opportunity than as a high-priced commodity whose value will be enhanced by good grades.
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