Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last quarter your campus began to discuss a transcript change that would add to the transcript the number of students enrolled in the course and the median grade. On the Berkeley campus we too are discussing this proposal, referred to here as "relative transcripts." Contrary to one of your articles, this proposal is still under discussion and has not yet been implemented...
...oppose relative transcripts, first because it would raise the level of competition among students, which is at an all time high already. With relative transcripts, an "A" becomes meaningless unless matched by a lower grade. Thus students are discouraged from working together, from helping each other on assignments and from doing group projects. It would be to the student's best interest that his classmates do poorly. Clearly, this does not foster the kind of educational cooperation we want at our universities...
...have trouble getting to sleep last night? Are you still shaking your head and smiling every time you think about it? Did you call up guys that you haven't talked to since those seventh grade Bar Mitzvah parties and gloat for 15 minutes about what you saw and what they missed...
...years ago I spoiled an otherwise spotless fifth grade career by failing to produce for Miss Capponetti of Rosemont Elementary School a three-page handwritten report on colonial American shipbuilding, a topic which continues to exert an uncanny soporific effect...
...result: Terraset (i.e., "set in the earth"), one of the nation's first energy-conserving schools, which opens this month for 990 kindergarten through sixth-grade students. Built into a hill in Reston, the school contains four large "learning circles," each of which is divided into eight wedge-shaped classrooms, plus a "media center," a gymnasium and a cafeteria. A layer of soil three to five feet thick covers the top and three sides. A panel structure on top of the hill contains 4,900 solar collectors to turn the sun's rays into heat. The yearly cost...