Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Initiate, Develop, Cultivate. Who decides what "study unit" to take up? Why, says the guidebook, mostly the pupils themselves. But once they have made their choice, e.g., "Building Good Relationships with Our Parents" in an eighth grade social-studies class, they are in for an elaborate process. First comes "initiating the unit," i.e., discuss why bother with it?, then "developing the unit" by 1) deciding on its objectives, e.g., "to cultivate the social customs which are necessary for gracious living," 2) planning the work, e.g., "select pupil personnel for the various activities," 3) carrying out the activities, e.g., "making...
...intelligence. Written and directed by Frank Capra as the second in a special science series (the first: Our Mr. Sun), the film told the story of the blood and how it gets around. It was doubly condescending in assuming that 1) viewers must be approached at the grade-school level to woo their interest in science, and 2) the circulatory system is so intrinsically dull that it takes the act of Capra to improve on the Lord's handiwork...
...hidebound Spanish church seemed to get strong backing last week from Pope Pius XII. In a speech that sounded like an endorsement of Spain's liberal, fast-increasing Opus Dei organization (TIME. March 18), the Pope urged a group of newly ordained Spanish priests to foster a "higher grade of generous catholicity" and to incorporate the church "more and more resolutely in those currents of mutual cooperation in which many persons today see the future and salvation of the world." He reminded them that Spain, "although placed in a corner of this old Europe, is conscious that today already...
...PRICES, now at a 15-year low for this time of year because of record production and lessened demand, will stay down through summer, then turn up because farmers are buying fewer replacement chicks. Retail prices last week for a dozen large grade A eggs were as low as 47^ in Chicago, 45?-in New York, 41? in Los Angeles...
...Grade Lead. In Oklahoma City, Elmer Anderson of the Water Department answered a call for assistance, unlocked a water meter cover, retrieved a stubby, well-chewed pencil for a worried eight-year-old, gently asked if his mother didn't have a better pencil, was told, "That's the pencil I make the best grades with...