Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Isobel MacDonald, an energetic Scottish schoolmarm, spent a year in Manhattan teaching English and history at a flossy private grade school for girls. Back in Britain last week, she summed up her experience in a BBC broadcast. Her central theme: it was a "fight to the finish...
...tell you what life was like with the sixth grade," Miss MacDonald told her British audience. "They come charging in, all 14 of them, bursting with pep and dog and devil . . . Milly throws on my desk two battered and scrawled anonymous sheets. 'Where's your name, Milly? You should write your name on your [home] work before giving it in.' She borrows a pencil from Alice, her companion in crime. Alice has a clip machine; she clips the pages together ... so that I cannot open them. I get possession of this mangled piece of work, have...
Entering the Harvard community, where women were academically grade B citizens, she was the first and for a while the only female attending Faculty meetings. In the position of "a minority of one," she was an immediate success. "We all just went overboard for her," said a History department colleague. "One of the boys from the start, she is a person with great learning, but without even a touch of the pedant...
...program, to begin in the fall of 1955 for qualified students, included: early admission from eleventh grade without high school diploma; advanced placement in courses not regularly open to freshmen; course reduction; sophomore standing directly from his school with immediate entrance into the Houses...
...Committee on Admissions, in consultation with the Committee on Special Standing, may now admit students of "superior achievement and maturity" who have completed the eleventh grade of secondary school...