Teaching as a discipline is one of many social sciences,
but since it's not a true science, there is no pressure to
create quantitative measures for any of their components.
No rigor, no quant, and you leave it up to individual motivations
as the driving forces.
Result, as the article states, easier classes mean higher grades.
Higher grades means better teacher evaluations.
Better evaluations means easier job and more money.
Result - grade inflation.
It seems obvious now, so we shouldn't be surprised.
The real question should be this: when can we expect the bubble to burst?

There was a time, before we all lost our minds to Pong, Asteroids and Zelda (yes, I go way back) where we also spent time taking our world apart and figuring out how to make it better.

Oona rocks! She should be rewarded somehow.

BTW - the end of the article finally explains how a megahertz signal found its way onto the audio track.

Here's a must see link for us weather nerds...

http://earth.nullschool.net/

make sure to tune into the 10 hPa setting and watch the polar vortex do its thing.

Thank you supercomputer...

...
who couldn't think worth a dyne,
he accused the one Mann,
who has Truth in his plan,
and we hope the court rules him a slime.

It's the best I can do on short notice - but there's not much else we can do as long as long as his advertisers keep making money.

Why do we keep the poor guy? He's had a great insight.

Now, let's get all scientific on his ass. Get a bottle, fill it with the right and ...

MAKE SOME LIFE!

... is doomed to repeat it.

Does anyone else get the impression that we're on the downside of civilization?

Have we all forgotten how to use paper, pen, envelope and stamp? Just leave off your return address - and don't sign it!

Watson isn't about organizing information, it's about thinking enough to arrive at a conclusion.

Even today, my 84 year old father has learned how to gather information off the web. A child learns to do it in minutes. Imagine what Watson will be able to glean in seconds.

Finally, imagine Watson as a programmer. Optimum code - self debugging - as much documentation as you want - and perhaps the biggest asset - the ability to adjust the scope every time the customer changes their mind, without complaining.

Skynet? No, I'm thinking more like Colossus, the Forbin Project.

Then again, AC, Science means you spend a lot of time replicating the obvious. Obviously, /. is beneath you. Don't visit.
I don't read most of the articles, or posts for that matter. There was something about yours...
You claim slashdot owners don't post anti-President Obama (correct address by the way) because of a hidden political agenda. Yet they are willing to post your comments.
Please, reply and post your own links to FACTS backing up your CLAIMS about how the spacecraft was painted. I'm going to love seeing how NASA interprets a cthulu creature. I hoping for something in high heels.

They should have started sooner, AND
They need to put the full-press on congress to improve the patent process. Patents mean almost nothing today. The office is overwhelmed, and it's up to patent courts to try and sort through the mess.

This is an EXCELLENT video. Thanks for the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIflReRmynk

NASA is filled with bureaucrats and lifers. I know a lot of them personally. I think they're all great, and give our world more bang for my buck than any other agency (sorry NSA).

Look at what Musk is doing by riding herd over his people - he fires them when they can't perform - and guess what? SpaceX performs.

Time to create a government agency (or two) whose sole purpose is to get a colony going on the moon. Maybe another agency for unmanned exploration. And that's it. The aeronautical functions can be let loose to the private sector.

Maybe we should call it, Starfleet?