Word: grading
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Statistics compiled by Elliott's staff, comparing summer and winter grade averages of Harvard Summer School students, reveal that eighty percent of the students receive summer grades neither a full grade higher not lower than their regular College averages. Of the remaining twenty percent, approximately half tallied lower marks in the summertime than in the remainder of the year. These figures would seem to indicate that instructors' doubts about the calibre of Summer School students are unfounded, Elliott said...
...delighted. "Well, why don't you?" he shot back. And with that he picked up three-year-old Lynda and kissed her. Then, beaming, he turned to greet Lynda's sister and brothers, her mother and her father, Willard Widerberg, 34, a seventh-grade teacher from De Kalb, Ill., who had just been named "Teacher of the Year" by the U.S. Office of Education and McCall's magazine...
...peaceful, elm-shaded Mormon oasis amid the wind-worn rocks and wild hills of south-central Utah. Basically a cow town, it was a pleasant stop for tourists and a sometime location for Hollywood westerns. Three months ago, Kanab's quiet was disturbed by the discovery of commercial-grade uranium ten miles east of town...
...sorority women at mid-year's was 83.37. The average of all women together was 83.20, and of neutral women, 83.06. On the male side of the street neutral men led with 78.02. The total men's average was 76.27, while the fraternities lagged at the bottom with a grade average...
Curiously out of line with this goal, however, is an older rule requiring honors candidates to count every grade in every course they take in their field, no matter how esoteric the course or how far it may exceed ordinary honors requirements. While a poor grade in a "primarily for graduates" course seldom penalizes a concentrator in fields demanding a thesis and generals, it is often damaging in the sciences, where grades alone are the basis for honors determination. For this reason, many prospective scientists, recognizing the gamble involved, shy away from advanced courses in their field or related fields...