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Tenured College Professor Fired for Giving Students A+

By Laura | February 6, 2009

In an article dated today, the Globe and Mail reports a story of a physics professor at the University of Ottawa who has been suspended, pending dismissal, for giving all his students an A+ grade. 

I think that it’s time that society re-evaluate the purpose of grades and if they truly help us to judge a person’s knowledge. 

Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job

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