Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Increasingly, a high level of literacy is required for work, for citizenship, for personal needs. Most technical manuals in the military and in industry require a relatively high literacy level (about a 12th grade reading level on a standardized reading test). It is the level sought by adults who lose their jobs in manufacturing and who seek advanced training and high school equivalency diplomas...
...THIS WEIRDNESS the portrayal of the three witches (Allison Brody, Sarah Jane Cohen, and Celia M. Wren) as grade-school girls instead of old hags: their giggling and maledictions sung like nursery rhymes creates an odd but real menace. But the originality of this show gives out long before the final curtain, as it shies away from severely tampering with the conventions and gives us a typical collegiate run through the Riverside Edition...
...children and people who are predisposed to developing eating disorders. The incidence of anorexia nervosa has risen steeply in the last 15 years, an increase partly attributable to our increasing cultural emphasis upon slimness. Children are swayed by the obsession with weight: a survey showed that half of fourth grade girls say they diet, and 75 percent of them feel they are too heavy and are terrified of gaining weight...
...sophomores--reported in a recent issue of The Crimson--will elicit broad and active participation from professors. A department's policy is dismaying when it assigns to seniors who write honors theses in British history a graduate student advisor who specializes in French history, and when it equates one grade on that thesis from another faceless graduate student with that of a distinguished senior faculty member. Under such a procedure, no one knows how many good young men and women are deterred from entering teaching or public service jobs where principles are supposed to count...
...museums have an outreach program with Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, and Sandburg lectured on archaeology, particularly on Sardis--a long-term excavation in Turkey for which he worked for a summer--in an effort to help the teachers incorporate archaeology into the 10th and 11th grade curriculum...