Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of make-ups. It doubted that the number of students coming down with a serious illness during examination period was increasing as rapidly as were the number of make-ups. After discussions with the Faculty Council and CUE, it was decided to place a special notation on every grade recorded on a transcript after an extension of time or make-up granted by the Board. The Board also sought to make certain that all officials in the Health Services who had responsibility for signing medical make-up forms were aware of the significant adverse educational effects which could result...
When I was transferred to St. John's Parish Day School last fall to begin fourth grade, I was incredulous that I had to learn italic writing. Thanks to your article, I now know why we practice this so endlessly. I am now doing fairly well, but on the first day I couldn't even get the ink to flow from...
Heckling is both a primitive art form and a kind of low-grade amateur guerrilla warfare, a nonviolent intellectual terrorism. Done properly, it produces roughly the effect achieved by releasing a bagful of garter snakes and rats in a cathedral: a spiritual shambles, the sermon in ruins, the bishop standing speechless at the altar...
Many students like Gaspar take their courses pass/fail so that they can focus on learning the material without grade pressure. Gaspar says he hopes to finish his thesis in three years--the average amount of time a doctoral candidate stays at the Ed School...
...brought into the world by a couple whose talent for parenting is exemplified by their belief that he is a girl, until at 15 he tells them otherwise. He is subject to fits of extreme depression during which he will lie down and refuse to move. Despite truthful seventh-grade "What I Did This Summer" papers--in which he describes Iying motionless in festering ragpiles--on one attempts to direct his aimless stumbling until his freshman year in college. It is then that the audience sees for the first time the product of this hellish existence, as he converses confidentially...