Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not normal: the mother's age. She was herself a child of nine years, seven months, 28 days. Only a few months ago she wore white cardboard wings and played an angel in the third-grade play at school...
...five, who had attended a regular kindergarten, entered Adastra suffering from nightmares, constant stomach upsets and a nasty rash. Now, no longer bored, he reads, is rapidly learning Spanish, and his symptoms are gone. A girl of four kept vanishing from Adastra's kindergarten to join the first grade, would be brought back screaming: "They have books in kindergarten but just with pictures. They don't do numbers. I want to be in first grade." After a two-week trial, the McCormicks let her have her way. As for the parents, they are equally enthusiastic. Says Alma...
...time, Knopf recalls mournfully, when editors were not compelled to "conduct elaborate correspondence courses" for "would-be and indeed practicing novelists." The fellows are unreliable, snorts Knopf: "We pay substantial advances for books that never get written." Worst of all, they are self-important: "You can offer a grade A milk and a grade B if you are in the dairy business, but authors are vain in a way that cows...
Tutorial succeeds best when it involves only one student and one tutor. Then the motivation is not the grade, but the desire to prove one's thoughts to a man one respects. To be caught up unprepared in an individual tutorial makes one feel like a fool, and avoiding this is a greater motivation than the possibility of an honors grade at the end of the term...
...there is not enough money available for any considerable expansion of individual tutorial, although advances could be made if the departments expressed more interest. So tutors must do as best they can with group tutorials, which are little better than small sections. The only grade which could be derived from group tutorial would be vague, and based on peripheral factors--intelligence of expression and conversational gamesmanship. While such a grade might produce some work it would also bore or even outrage the intelligent student...