Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grace Fernald's clinic school at U.C.L.A. [TIME, July 12] unwittingly puts a finger on the fundamental fault of present-day grade school education. Why was a boy who was unable to read or write promoted year after year until he reached the fifth grade ? And how much further would he have been promoted if he hadn't gone to the clinic school...
After school, Miss Mowrey must grade papers, prepare for the next day's schoolwork, help her sister with the housework, find time to visit the parents of problem students. She rarely sees a movie, does practically no reading beyond what is required for her class work, and is annoyed to find herself slipping out of touch with the news. She climbs into bed each night exhausted...
When his fifth-grade teacher despaired of ever teaching him to read or write, the boy was sent to the clinic school of Dr. Grace M. Fernald at the University of California at Los Angeles. His first day there he learned to write and recognized 14 words. In ten months he was back in school, able to read and write as well as his classmates...
...means the subtle and cold-blooded rage at the perversion of death and love which some subtle and raging people suppose it to be. It is Evelyn Waugh caught between laughter and vomiting. The story of the patriotic pretensions and fussy snobbishness of the British film colony is grade A Waugh. Less artful is the travelogue of the intricate inanities of Whispering Glades, from the voice of a nightingale piped through the grounds and mortuary buildings to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, complete with nine rows of beans and beeless beehives with electric buzzers (burial plots $1,000). Most amusing...
...presidency of B. & B. Far from satisfied that he had proved himself, Ward worked harder than ever to weather the depression, stepped up the pace still more to convert to war production (proximity fuses). Last week the New York Stock Exchange gave him proof that he had made the grade. It listed B. & B. stock on its Big Board...