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Op-Ed: Listen up, college students. You don't 'get' a grade. You have to earn it

Por: Los Angeles Times Opinion October 09, 2022

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Every fall, my mental timeline is flooded with memories of the teachers who changed my life. And last week — when I read about the controversial termination of Maitland Jones Jr., a distinguished New York University professor whose courses in organic chemistry were deemed too hard by students hoping to get into medicine — it took me back to the September I met my toughest teacher. It was 1994, and I was a 19-year-old student in my third year... + full article



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