Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iron-ore deposits of 2.5 billion tons, found south and west of Morocco near Tindouf and Fort Gouraud, could produce 15 million tons of high-grade (53% to 65% iron-content) ore a year...
...hope itself are derided in the mad figures inhabiting the horse. One is a naked but derby-hatted fellow named Maloney the Areopagite, who is writing the life of Saint Puce, a flea that was born in Christ's armpit. Another is John Raskolnikov Gilson, an eighth-grade schoolboy who wants to sleep with Miss McGeeney, his English teacher. In order to make his views known ("How sick I am of literary bitches. But they're the only kind that'll have me"), the boy has written a pamphlet that sounds very like West...
While European students generally get by without constant grading, grade consciousness is instilled in the American youth all through school, culminating in a terrific batery of tests his last year in school. It is felt that this grade emphasis stimulates much of the learning in American education...
...practical terms however, there is no chance of this within the foreseeable future. Budgetary considerations and old-fashioned conservatism would prevent any immediate universality for the plan. There is another great factor, a lingering belief that many of the students in the College actually learn more because of the grade stimulus than they would without...
While a person working just for a grade gets quite a lot out of a course, I wish we didn't have to lay so much stress on grades, particularly in areas like scholarships. We have sixteen and one half courses for everybody, and the same system all the way through...