Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...
Within 42 hours, police, swarming into the integrated area around the Penn campus, collared all eleven of the junior-grade thugs, aged 15 to 19. In municipal court a pursed-lipped judge quickly ruled they must be tried for murder as adults. Philadelphia, its brotherly love strained like many another U.S. city's by the mounting onslaught of teen-age warfare (TIME, April 7), was patently disgusted with sociological explanations, was angry enough for a hard approach to juvenile delinquency. Urged the Philadelphia Bulletin: "A soft policy toward the owners of hands dripping with blood is a frightful mistake...
...under the course reduction program. The physicist who would like to take time out to study a certain literary epoch, or the English major who might want to do a project outside his field cannot study in his own department's tutorial. Tutorial for credit is, also, essentially a graded course, and the student may feel less free to explore interesting sidelines to his work if he feels pressure to earn a high grade...
...Latin, Spanish, French, German or Hebrew. For students who are superior even at Bronx High, there are sterner courses in English, math and physics, biology and chemistry, leading to college admission with advanced standing. So far the students have taken everything thrown at them; last fall a tenth-grade biology class was fed a hard, one-year biology course in one semester, and at the end, most of the experimental group rated above 95 on a New York State Regents exam. This semester, class members are doing independent research, prowling into such arcane matters as an attempt to find whether...
...machines are used to give students practice in the material of the course, but a part of the final grade is based on the amount of practice the student gets...