Word: grading
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Like most educators, the men of Caltech have their little eccentricities. Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky takes peculiar pride in the fact that he has never given a student a grade of 100 (except once, and then the student turned out to be a fiction created by a band of Zwicky's colleagues). Brilliant young Theoretical Physicist Richard Feynman is a master at breaking lock and safe combinations (during World War II, he made the rounds of Los Alamos safes, depositing "Guess who?" notes in them). In his spare time, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling likes to blast away at the souped...
Social science has demonstrated the worthlessness of "adjustment periods"; the evidence on integrating all grades of school at once is not so clear. When the Court decides whether it wants simultaneous integration, or desegration that proceeds through the grades with next year's class of children, it strikes out on pyschological soil--it must weigh the enhanced efficiency of teaching and probably diminished bigotry of the grade-by-grade scheme, against the domestic problems for families with one child in a segregated class and another in a mixed group...
...oral instruction, the student would be jeopardized in passing the language requirement examination which is geared to testing grammatical and reading ability. Once the importance of oral training is conceded, it would be begging the question to raise this objection. The student could be tested orally and his grade then incorporated with his grade on the written examination as constituting his language requirement examination grade. An alternative solution might be in eliminating the "requirement" examination altogether, simply requiring a grade of B plus or higher, say, to entitle a student to exemption from the requirement of another year of language...
Interrupted Melody (M-G-M). The Salk vaccine, which prevents infantile paralysis, will probably bring out, in reaction, a low-grade rash of films like this one. If ignored, they will go away. Based on the autobiography of Marjorie Lawrence, the Metropolitan Opera star who was stricken with the disease in 1941 but came back in 1943 to sing Venus from a sitting position, Interrupted Melody is a poliopera in color. For three-fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from...
...also organized Sunday geology field trips and trained student troupes to give special science shows in the grade schools. Meanwhile, he kept on with his own studies. He took a second B.S., in geology, an M.S. in civil engineering and another in geology, an M.A. in secondary education, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Finally, during World War II he added special classes for G.I.s from a nearby air base, most of whom were boning up for advanced ratings. Some of these classes convened at i a.m., the only convenient free time the G.I.s...