Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system by which cadets rate each other on leadership. It has also abandoned the general order of merit, which prescribed the ranking of each cadet by academic grades as well. Thus the class of '78 will be the first to have no "goat"-the cadet who got his diploma last because he had the lowest overall standing...
...Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers to replace police in patrolling ghetto schools and street corners, has launched a drive for black parents to monitor strictly their children's homework and schooling, and has urged that voter registration cards be handed to each high school graduate along with a diploma. Says he: "Nobody will save us from...
...Massachusetts, 55 years ago. A soft-spoken but articulate man, he has devoted most of his adult life to scholarly pursuits, but has not led the conventional life of an academic. He attended Harvard for one year as an undergraduate but left because of financial pressures. He received a diploma from McGill University in Montreal instead. As a graduate student at yale, Jaynes turned down his Ph.D. in psychology for what he calls "political reasons." He says there was, and still is, "much too much emphasis on things like degrees, and too little emphasis on intellectual life to which universities...
...parked his car in the wrong place at school and was to receive a punishment of three blows. Despite a letter of protest from the mother, which Hentoff prints in its two-page entirety, the school would not reconsider and the boy received his diploma only after agreeing to take the three blows. Other horror stories--such as an assistant principal wearing brass knuckles and an athletic coach clubbing his players into form with an athletic shoe--are interspersed with accounts of teachers' justifications of corporal punishment and with discussions of court decisions affirming the legality of corporal punishment...
What becomes of them--the dropouts, those who graduate with a "general" diploma but cannot read at more than an eighth grade level, if that? Well, they don't become "innovative" academics who "prove" the relative unimportance of schooling (e.g. Christopher Jencks, 'Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling In America,' 1972). Nor do they become "radical" professors of economics who maintain that until we change our economic system to egalitarian socialism, there's not much that can be fundamentally done to change the schools (e.g. Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, 'Schooling in Capitalist America...