Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Math Department, while hesitant about combining the two courses as suggested by Rosenthal, has agreed at least to form an honors section which possibly would have a minimum B grade in 1a as a prerequisite. If this plan is adopted, the section will not try to cover all the material in both courses, but will move "much faster than the others...
Teacher Chambers believes that, despite progress made in educating gifted children in the past two decades (notably in California, Ohio and New York City), much brain power is still going to waste. Among the possible remedies: special counselors to identify high I.Q. pupils as early as the first grade, advanced courses or classes, parent-teacher cooperation to encourage the gifted child's development without alienating him from his school pals. The U.S. is now spending disproportionately more time and effort on the handicapped than on training the children who should be its future scientists, scholars, spokesmen...
...report that it was several times as rich in uranium as the sand. Shepherd then took some shallow-core samples of the rock in one section of Nowata County and shipped them off to AEC. The assays showed a uranium content well above the lowest commercial grade...
Many students feel that the present plan of releasing exact rank and course scores to prospective employers places undue emphasis on actually meaningless grade differences. "The difference between a high C and a low C may only be a few points," Glenn said, "but it represents several hundred places on the rank list. Since the law firms tend to emphasize class standing, a student is under constant pressure to improve his grades...
Green Fire (MGM) spreads caviar on hardtack-which hardly improves the hardtack, and pretty well spoils the caviar. Grace Kelly is the delicacy in question, and what she is wasted on here is an ordinary Grade B jungle bungle. In Green Fire, as in Mogambo, the only other picture she has made at Metro, Grace is caviar to the crocodiles. A coffee heiress, she lives on a South American mocha finca. The nearest eligible male is weeks away. Hold on though, here comes Stewart Granger up the river, looking almost as hungry as she does. He is not hungry...