Word: criterions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are three specific reasons why some change is imperative. In the first place, the preparatory school prepares for the College Board examination without any regard for the background they provide for their students. The criterion of a good preparatory school at the present time is nothing more than the number of men they manage to cram into colleges. The result is that the college is forced to give many hopelessly elementary courses to fill up life gaps the secondary school has left...
...effect would the abolition of probation have? In the absence of any other check there is every reason to suppose that the same athlete would allow himself to slip even lower than the standard established by probation. If it were proposed to dismiss him, still there must be some criterion on which to judge and he must in all fairness be warned. Probation requirements, subject to the elastic judgment of the authorities, supply the criterion and probation itself constitutes the warning. There may be a more successful method of accomplishing this end, but if there is Mr. Clark...
...students of education, to justify also his criticisms of public schools. It is unquestionably true that there has been no general agreement, among those responsible for our present program of secondary education, upon a statement of purposes which recognizes tangible return to the supporting State as the foremost criterion of effective teaching. The purposes which have been accepted have been largely sentimental in nature. They have been based upon the apparent assumption either that every individual has an unquestioned right to all the education which he wants, or his parents want for him--at public expense, or that the more...
...which to make a living". Developing on this, he said that, though it sounded innocuous, it was full of implications of highest importance. "Success of secondary education should be measured in youth made better able and better disposed to contribute to the betterment of the state. Judged by this criterion, our secondary schools are a lamentable failure...
...although admitting it is not in complete possession of the facts, as candidly declares the Coast Guard is incapable of wrong-doing while engaged in the pursuitence duty. Assistant Secretary Low man yesterday was more astute or perhaps more bewildered, so far as silence may be taken as a criterion. It is merely a matter of choice...