Word: grades
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...This will give people it sense of what to aim for," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman, an expert in the education field. He added the new report will motivate schools to eliminate the grade inflation and "excessive leniency" that characterize much of higher education today...
...future? "Nothing define," he says, smiling, "just finishing the eleventh grade." Someone asks, does that mean going to L.A.. "Ohhhhh, noooo, Not L.A. No, please. I don't know what it is I can't deal with. Maybe all of the Palm Trees, "he says, shaking his head. "Oh, I'm sorry is anybody here from...
ACQUITTED. Jerry Lee Lewis, 49, renegade rockabilly singer who has had numerous brushes with the law over the years; of federal income tax evasion; in Memphis. He was indicted last February for concealing income from 1975 to 1980. But his lawyer successfully argued that with Lewis' sixth-grade education, he was incompetent to handle his own finances. Despite the acquittal, Lewis still owes...
...addition, the report calls for proficiency exams to supplement the present grade and credit systems "as a condition of awarding degrees." It also recommends raising faculty pay and giving greater weight to teaching (vs. research) in hiring, salary and tenure. It is, in all, a challenging document, designed to generate the same kind of debate and groundswell of reform that has followed the earlier study on schools. Chairman Mortimer, for one, is confident the reforms will come. "This is the year the spotlight gets thrust on higher education," he says. "It's almost a window of opportunity." -By Ezra...
...general case nationwide, very few Harvard cooks are women, except in the Quad, where several remain from the days when Radcliffe was still independent Union officials said the University systematically keeps women from the cooks' positions, which pay an average $2 an hour more than lower grade jobs...