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  • Common knowledge of the increasing importance of these evaluations has prompted many professors to "dumb-down" the content of the courses, write easier exams, and present lectures that are "entertaining."

    Paul Stoller: Classroom Commentaries Paul Stoller 2011

  • Common knowledge of the increasing importance of these evaluations has prompted many professors to "dumb-down" the content of the courses, write easier exams, and present lectures that are "entertaining."

    Paul Stoller: Classroom Commentaries Paul Stoller 2011

  • By ensuring that we dumb-down real skills, while altering the target criteria to allow us to trumpet increasing standards, we are well on the way to our goal .

    MPs: Almost 24m Adults Have Poor Numeracy Skills Dungeekin 2009

  • Unfortunately, most political systems dumbfound and dumb-down the masses and castrate the power of the people.

    Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: The Transformation of Social Life Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011

  • By ensuring that we dumb-down real skills, while altering the target criteria to allow us to trumpet increasing standards, we are well on the way to our goal .

    Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • That is because music will only be taught at elite state and private universities, and, when taught at other schools, educators are increasingly pressured to simplify and dumb-down the curriculum, because true musical education on the collegiate level is anything but easy, and difficult courses are less popular and have lower enrollments.

    March « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

  • And like you all were previously saying, they want to dumb-down an election to bring in the people who don't follow all of the details that should be followed to be a competent voter.

    Decoding 2010 Political Attack Buzzwords 2010

  • That is because music will only be taught at elite state and private universities, and, when taught at other schools, educators are increasingly pressured to simplify and dumb-down the curriculum, because true musical education on the collegiate level is anything but easy, and difficult courses are less popular and have lower enrollments.

    Thoughts on Music « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

  • And like you all were previously saying, they want to dumb-down an election to bring in the people who don't follow all of the details that should be followed to be a competent voter.

    Decoding 2010 Political Attack Buzzwords 2010

  • Unfortunately, most political systems dumbfound and dumb-down the masses and castrate the power of the people.

    Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: The Transformation of Social Life Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011

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