Word: graded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hold between 25 and 30 students, has quarters for a married master and at least one other instructor. The master, a senior faculty member, also acts as an advisor to the students in his dormitory. This task involves at least one conference every two weeks to discuss bi-weekly grade reports. But the master's job involves much more--seeing that the younger students are in bed on time, collecting the required Sunday night letters to families, quieting disturbances, and occasionally having parties...
...Eighth grade students learn enough chemistry to determine simple compounds of some twenty-odd elements, enough astronomy to calculate roughly the winter solstice with hand-made tools or to ask why the orbit of the moon is not a true ellipse, and enough geometry and trigonometry to construct very accurate maps on conic and other projections...
...take advantage of it, it is not a widely utilized program even now. Many departments have been very slow to push it, and the publicity on the idea was nonexistent. And further many students seemed very hesitant to accept the responsibility for studying where there would be no grade to reward them...
...Signed the $576 million bill boosting pay for all enlisted men and officers with more than a rookie's two years of service, also setting up in-grade bonus pay for tough jobs...
Elementary schools in Lakewood, Ohio, a comfortable suburb of Cleveland, conscientiously teach all basic subjects, even offer "enrichment" work for bright children. But, like most grade schools, they see no obligation to teach foreign languages or give children a fast, Space-Age start in science. Last winter a group of parents with bright children tested this mixture, found it lean for the pupils with high...