Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merely providing a placement system is not enough. The Committee realizes that no incentive can ever prod the student who is so grade-conscious that his intellectual curiosity is dead. But it has sensibly asked that grade requirements for scholarship holders electing advanced courses be reduced. In the past, the fear of low grades and a resulting reduction of scholarship stipends has been a main factor in keeping these men from taking courses that tax the limits of their abilities...
...instance, the British endured a spate of low-grade idiots in the ranks during the Revolution and the War of 1812. We have it on cinema graphic authority that American spays had only to assume a bogus West End accent to gain admission to the most secret of English planning sessions...
...report. Affecting the most people is a greatly strengthened and enlarged placement system designed to give incoming students the opportunity to work at as advanced a level as they are capable. The Committee recommends that placement tests be given in English, history, languages, mathematics, and science. A sufficiently-high grade on a placement test would secure exemption from elementary level courses in any of these fields...
...more than its bi-weekly short papers. But they shy away from the more advanced English C, because they feel that it is aimed at the fledgling creative writer. Those few who do turn out for English C sometimes find themselves rejected because their work is of an inferior grade. this is especially true this year, when an instructor's illness has vastly over-loaded the remaining sections of the course, and even students with considerable talent have been rejected...
...could really teach the youngsters, McGonagle decided two years ago, he would have to educate their par-"ents: he invited mothers and fathers to come along and study art with the kids. This week, completing his third "Family Workshop," in which parents painted, drew and sculpted alongside their grade-schoo'-age children, Teacher McGonagle was more than ever convinced that children are both far more productive and far less hamstrung by realism than their parents. Said he flatly: "All the children's work is better than the parents." He added: "The adults are just afraid to let themselves...