Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes

The New York Times recently published an article on grading and student expectations. Since grading has begun in earnest in all of my courses now, and there are many questions about grades and expectations, I thought this article might spur some discussion, either here in the comments or in D2L.

Note that the following citation for the article follows MLA style, save for the hanging indent, because web formatting doesn't love hanging indents. Blogger also doesn't allow underlining, so in lieu of underlining, I've used italics.

Roosevelt, Max. "Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes." New York Times. 17 Feb. 2009. New York Times Company. 19 Feb. 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/education/18college.html