Word: gradelessness
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...wake of considerable parental protest, the Washington, D.C. school board was considering a move to abandon the school system's gradeless type of modern report card for elementary schoolchildren. If the move goes through, a pupil will no longer be competing only with himself for such vague comments as "satisfactory," "outstanding," or "needs much improvement." Instead, he will be expected to perform the work for the grade he is in-and get the old-fashioned A, B, C, D or U (for unsatisfactory...