Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, for example, we studied all the students who has scored 300--a perfect grade--on their scholastic aptitude test. Half of them flunked...
Simpson, vice-president of the American Association of School Administrators, which is holding its annual regional conference in Philadelphia, said that an expected increase of 9,000,000 students in the nation threatens a critical shortage of grade school instructors...
Curly-haired, nine-year-old Symphony Conductor Ferruccio Burco (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948) was making himself at home in the fourth grade at a Manhattan school. Called "Butch" by classmates, he had built up a library of comic books, a collection of toy guns (55), and an impression that "some" little U.S. girls are "pretty...
Town & Country has been quietly slipping ever since Editor Harry Bull resigned from the 100-year-old Hearst-owned monthly (TIME, April 28, 1947). Bull's successor, Paris-born Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, didn't make the grade. Casting around for somebody new, the top Hearst brass asked ex-Hearstling Sell whether he knew a good editor. Said Sell: "Yes, me!" It was a deal, with the understanding that Editor Sell would go on running his meat business and keeping an eye on his Blaker Advertising Agency...
...unfairness shows up in the case of the student who gets three B-plusses and a C-plus for his term's work. When a percentage scale is set up parallel to the letter grade scale and letters are translated into their numerical equivalents (a process which many section men use in arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges...