grade grubbing article in the NY Times

Interesting article about entitlements and grades... I can attest that it's a definite frustration to professors that students expect/deserve to get A's for effort...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/education/18college.html?em

The article starts like this:


"Prof. Marshall Grossman has come to expect complaints whenever he returns graded papers in his English classes at the University of Maryland.
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Prof. Ellen Greenberger studied what she found to be an increased sense of entitlement among college students.

“Many students come in with the conviction that they’ve worked hard and deserve a higher mark,” Professor Grossman said. “Some assert that they have never gotten a grade as low as this before.”

He attributes those complaints to his students’ sense of entitlement.

“I tell my classes that if they just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a C,” he said. “That is the default grade. They see the default grade as an A.”