Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bloom County proved grade-A material for this community's pundits. And for others, it was a good excuse to give us a kick in the pants. But surely everyone concerned would benefit more if, in the future. Harvard minds focused on what even Berke Breathed would probably consider more important issues...
...arts teachers, a group that once eyed the computer revolution with suspicion and dread. Two years ago, researchers at New York City's progressive Bank Street College of Education decided to find out how word processors might affect the writing of their students. They had a few hundred grade-school children and a dozen microcomputers. But they lacked one necessary ingredient: a suitable writing program. Recalls President Richard Ruopp: "We tested the available word processors and found we couldn't use any of them...
Although disabled students often encounter similar insensitivity on the part of teachers (Kronick notes that "everybody has at least two examples"), they rarely report the problem. The student whose legal and moral rights have been violated "hates to push, for fear the professor will notice" and lower a grade, says Crooks. Chertkov agress, but adds that Crooks reinforces that fear, telling complaining students, "We'll push your complaint if you want, but this is the guy who's grading your term paper...
...proposal, scheduled to take effect in 1986, applies to the 277 colleges in the NCAA's Division I and requires that varsity athletes have a minimum grade point average and achieve a minimum score on the standardized Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...simply playing wait-and-see with the recruitment issue, which will likely become far more clear when Litback's report comes out within the next couple of weeks. The ad hoe athletics committee of the American Council on Education (ACE)--the Bok-chaired group which proposed the test and grade reform--last week divided into five subcommittees, including one which will look at recruitment and enforcement of recruiting measures. University of California at Los Angeles Chancellor Charles E. Young expects the ACE to have a recruiting proposal ready by November. "I believe there's a general feeling on the part...