Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of the schools give frequent tests and examinations, assign long hours of homework, spend generously on their libraries. They are not afraid to injure young psyches by publishing academic honors or assigning students to groups according to ability. About half the schools give superior students college-level work. Only one principal bothered to mention his physical plant as a major asset; only a few mentioned extracurricular activities. But their comments spoke volumes: "I am never happy except with superior work." "We simply refuse to accept mediocrity." "We started high and raised our standards from year to year." "When...
...will find it, says Woodring, by studying the long catchall lists of objectives drawn up by the educationists. These lists include everything from the three Rs to "friendship" and "efficiency in buying," but nowhere do they assign priorities...
...basis of Rowse's analysis it is possible to assign the newspapers he treated to various categories from fair to foul. The break-down would be pretty much as follows...
...Summer School Employment Office, meanwhile, has organized a regular and casual part-time job service and will continue both to look for and to assign jobs for the rest of the summer session...
Senior Faculty members could not be counted on for much more tutorial work, if any, unless there was a great cutback in course offerings. Committee responsibilities have increased tremendously (Murdock last fall served on nine Faculty committees) and this seems to preclude the Faculty's deciding to assign itself much more tutorial...