Word: graded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a lot of parents complained because their children were getting failing marks, Principal Edwin Anderson of the Prosser, Wash, high school made a survey, ventured an answer: an educational mixture too rich in gasoline. His figures: of seniors with A or B grades, only 11% own cars or have the use of them regularly. Among C-grade seniors, 33% have cars, and 62% of the C-minus-to-failing seniors are motorized. Cars owned by juniors with A or B grades, none; with C grades, 31%; and with C-minus-to-failing marks...
...anarchy in this matter," Bender stated. "I don't trust any system of central authority." He emphasized that at present "we don't really have satisfactory tests even in high school, and we need better ways than we have of identifying talent early--in the eighth or ninth grade...
...troops. The Cordiner report, of which some provisions have been adopted, envisioned greater reliance than is presently possible on a stable body of well-trained professionals. It advocated a salary and promotion system based on the critical skill and merit of a soldier rather than on his time in grade, and deplored the rapid turnover in skilled manpower. Cordiner pointed out that only about 23 per cent of American service men sign up for a second hitch and that the re-enlistment rate for "soft" skills, such as cook and truck-driver, was twice as high as that for "hard...
...years only about 12% of Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin first grade go on to finish high school. American students most often are promoted automatically-although some schools, notably those in New York City, have begun flunking dullards again. In Russia a frightening series of 26 examinations sift students at intervals, shunt unsuccessful scholars off to work or to one of thousands...
SHARP PRICE CUTS are coming this year for high-grade beef. Ranchers, who held back their cattle last year to build up drought-depleted herds, have boosted cattle population to alltime high 97 million, are ready to bring them to market...