Word: graded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mathematicians, TIME et al. couldn't pass a seventh-grade arithmetic test. "Over the past ten years M.I.T.'s gain: 365%. Thus $1,000 invested in M.I.T. shares ten years ago would be worth $3,650 today.." You get zero on that one. My twelve-year-old says to tell...
...drunk, son of a sadist who beat him habitually throughout his childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
...ruling from U.S. District Judge Sterling Hutcheson (TIME. Aug. 18), who gave the county until 1965 to desegregate. Last month the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered integration by next fall. There is little chance of that now. The county's two public high schools and 18 grade schools will stay shut. For some 1,500 white children, Prince Edward will set up private schools supported by donations (asking for state money might bring down the law). For more than 1,700 Negro students there will be no schools...
...Excuses. Shepard knew perfectly well what their surroundings meant to his students' morale, and tests given to all the city's students two years after integration confirmed his worst fears. All his eighth-grade children proved at least a year behind the median norm in reading, language, arithmetic-and only 7% of those about to enter high school were eligible for "top-track" work...
...output. Whereas rival U.S. manufacturers deride Japanese transistors as "cheap and dirty" (i.e., adequate for consumer equipment but not precise enough for high-grade military or industrial use), U.S. engineers rank good Japanese transistors on a par with good U.S. transistors-and they are considerably cheaper...