What exactly does the first sentence mean? It's a well-known euphemism for: making it easier, diluting standards, making grades easier to manipulate. Indeed j

What exactly does the first sentence mean? It's a well-known euphemism for: making it easier, diluting standards, making grades easier to manipulate. Indeed just yesterday, my head of department suggested that I move from programming exercises to essays in my operating systems course, so as to have fewer students fail. The problem with math/programming is that there are fairly hard and objective and measurable criteria for how good a student performs. So let's get rid of programming ...