Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recall I'd been having quite a little trouble with the boys the year he went to me (in the third grade)-not with him but with some of the bigger boys, and I asked the president of the school board to talk with them...
...existence of snap courses is responsible in no small degree for the disrepute of scholarship. For one thing, an indiscriminate distribution of A's inevitably lowers the value of an honor grade--if it does not deprive it of all significance whatever. An important incentive to mature scholarship is thereby greatly weakened. What is worse, snap courses cheapen the whole character of academic work. They parody true scholarship and bring university study into contempt...
...honor grade ought to represent some solid intellectual achievement. An A should not represent a mediocre student's best nor a good student's second best. It is an obvious corollary that the sliding scale of marking is bad. Its standard is not intelligent mastery of a subject, but the degree of mastery which the average in a particular class happens to have attained...
...attached to it in American schools and colleges. But so long as the marking system stands, so long as it is accorded a dominant place in the educational scheme, so long must it be dealt with seriously. If the University is not going to the extreme of abolishing course grades altogether, it ought to make certain that those grades in every case mean something definite about a student's grasp of a subject. The fact that in a few snap courses an honor grade indicates no real mastery of the field cannot fail to have a bad effect...
Crickard takes his Psychology makeup examination this morning and has been studying hard for it during the past week, turning up for brif workouts at Soldiers Field. The grade should be in within two days...