Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kindergarten and first-grade pupils, unable to read, are started on comic strips, lured on by such teasers as "Wouldn't you like to read the funnies' yourself without waiting for some one to read...
...seventh-grade history class wrote, edited, hand-printed a newspaper made up from the big news stories of the Revolutionary War. Headlines: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS SIGNED; WASHINGTON CAPTURES PRINCETON; CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS AT YORKTOWN. A geography class made a great map of the world, pinned the day's news stories on their points of origin...
...twenty or twenty-five more theological schools on independent foundations which profess to maintain academic standards of university level. Below these is a successions of seminaries of lower standards which resolve themselves. Finally into little more than schools of vocational guidance for students of hardly more than high-school grade...
...feel that we need to raise our standards in regard to the requirements for continuing at Harvard. . . . Our problem is not to grade our less brilliant students more harshly nor to treat more ruthlessly those who are able but unwilling; our problem is to find ways and means of awakening the enthusiasm and interest of the lazy and to guide those who are having difficulty in one group of courses into other departments of learning for which they may be much better equipped...
...definite convictions as to the amount of money that will be necessary for the sort of public projects that I have described. ... I assure you now they will be within the sound credit of the Government Clearance of slums . . . rural housing . . . rural electrification . . . reforestation . . . soil erosion . . . highways . . . elimination of grade crossings...