Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common Touch. Vice President Nixon and his wife Pat (she hasn't used the Thelma since grade school) live in a $41,000 home in Washington's Spring Valley. Their two exuberant daughters, "Tricia," 7, and Julie, 5, wake Nixon every morning at 7:15. From then until after breakfast is his only time to play with them. At 8 he leaves for the Capitol and a full day of meetings, handshaking, appointments and phone calls...
...Time for Commas. Meanwhile, the new President had begun to perform the chores of his new office with characteristic whirlwind energy-swearing in new Cabinet ministers (mostly old pols), mobilizing advisers both American and Filipino (a much higher grade of men) and firing orders like a drill sergeant...
Undergraduates who can annually obtain a mark of 70 on the Selective Service exam are still exempt throughout that college years. Seniors who wish to be deferred during their first year of graduate work need a grade of 75 on this exam...
...consequences of this trip to the archives go beyond depriving some professors of an annual bluebook bonfire. Students should now be given back their books. No longer will the reasoning behind a particular grade be the secret of a grader, pried from him only a specially-arranged meetings. If a student is to write for three hours, he deserves to know where he failed or succeeded. Under the new University regulation, or lack of it, there is no reason that he must be deprived of this knowledge any further...
...every hundred boys and girls who entered the fifth grade only four graduated from high school. There are 50 today. In education then we had a selective factor no longer operative. Today we have the responsibility of educating all the children of all the people...