Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week President Eisenhower strolled through the French doors of his office into the White House rose garden, and found himself hip-deep in schoolchildren. They were Negro and white members of the fifth grade...
...HIGH-GRADE MICA, too costly to mine in the U.S., will soon be made synthetically for the electronics industry. Mycalex Corp. of Clifton, N.J. has found an inexpensive way to make mica of magnesium, aluminum, silicon and fluorine, is ready to swing into large-scale production after successfully operating a pilot plant. Eventually, the process may make the U.S. less dependent on foreign supplies of high-grade mica, 95% of which (about 26 million lbs. annually) is imported from India...
...Grade-consciousness is an inevitable product of an educational system that attempts to rate its students. Its effects are two-fold: while some people tend to work harder for marks, the very fact that they are being graded can also make them shy away from difficult courses. Among the most valuable features of the new Advanced Standing plan is a provision allowing scholarship holders to keep their stipends even if their grades in especially difficult courses fall below the required scholarship average, In drafting such a regulation, the Committee on Educational Policy hoped to eliminate the aspect of mark-consciousness...
...English, was typical of the faculty response. Murdock commented, "The question of student cutting on Saturdays or any other day seems to me to involve the responsibility of the student rather than the instructor. If a student feels that he can afford to cut without damage to his grade, he may take the risk...
...much-publicized trip the commentator and his son took to Tibet in 1949. It is a cinematic counterpart of the long evening with a photograph album. The pictures are often amateurishly taken, the continuity is rakishly discontinuous, and the narration is written and read like a fifth-grade paper on How I Spent My Summer Vacation...