"E" Stands for Failure?

Cathy Davidson
8/13/2010 - 6:34am
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  1. Brian Palmer
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Brian Palmer from Slate called the other day to pick my brains over what happened to that "E" in the A, B, C, D, and F grading system.  He wrote a very interesting piece.  Here's a teaser and the url: http://www.slate.com/id/2263341

 

E Is for FailHow come schools assign grades of A, B, C, D, and F—but not E?

By Brian PalmerPosted Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, at 6:29 PM ET

Report card. Click image to expand.The school board in Mount Olive, N.J., will get rid of the D grade starting this fall, in an effort to raise the standards for graduation. From now on, any student whose average grade falls below a 70 will simply fail. How did we end up with an A-B-C-D-F grading system, anyway? Did schools ever assign a grade of E?

 

Read on at:  http://www.slate.com/id/2263341