Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game. In last week's encounter in the Boston Garden, won by the East 109-97, it was a surprise fillip to fine performances by the greatest basketball players in the world. Only a few years ago, pro basketball was a hobo sport that smelled of low-grade locker rooms and considered itself lucky if it weaned fans away from pinball and professional wrestling. Last week's game was lively-and sellout-proof of pro basketball's coming...
...present time, two attempts at "prospective" validation are being carried out in New York City and Washington, D.C. Starting in 1943, first grade children in the two cities were rated according to the Table, and are now being closely observed to see if they behave as predicted. Preliminary results are encouraging, though no definitive conclusions can yet be drawn...
...practical matter," said the dean, "it would place an intolerable burden upon an instructor who must at semester's end read and grade from 275 to 600 examination books to require that he mark the misspellings, the solecisms, and the abuse of language, and undertake to explain to the errant the proper usage." A course in remedial writing would not be feasible either. Warren's recommendation: that the colleges give each prospective law student an examination in expository writing at the end of his junior year to see if he needs extra work. Passing a second test would...
...teaches illiterates but laces his instruction with comments on the folly of crime. ¶A young man once on the FBI's most-wanted list, and described as vicious, depraved and hopeless, has at last settled down and is one of the most satisfactory students in the eighth grade...
...record national income and spending pressed hard on prices. The Department of Agriculture reported that consumers would pay more for pork in 1957, and possibly for better-grade beef. Last week, alarmed by the burst of price increases, Washington began taking notice and action. Two congressional committees laid plans to investigate the hike in gasoline prices, and the Department of Justice launched a third probe into a possible price-fixing conspiracy. In an attempt to keep sugar prices from soaring higher, the Agriculture Department again increased sugar-marketing quotas, the second time in less than a month. But as consumer...