Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film shot in Europe (including a Paris show with Benny and Maurice Chevalier). In November the U.S. Air Force joins forces with CBS Public Affairs in a 26-part series called Air Power, "the story of flight and its impact on the 20th century." U.S. Steel will bring back Grade Fields, offer a musical version of Tom Sawyer and an adaptation of James Joyce's Dubliners. CBS viewers will also see a new Jackie Gleason show, a Herb Shriner variety program, and about five hours of color every week...
Sixth to Ninth. Without clear precedents to guide them, St. Louis educators arbitrarily set an IQ of 130 (very superior) as the dividing line between the average and the gifted student. Candidates for the special classes were identified by means of IQ tests given to all children in fourth grade. Those who scored no or better were given additional IQ tests shortly before they were due to enter sixth grade, assigned to nine special classrooms strategically scattered throughout the school system if they scored 130 or above on the latter tests and proved "socially adjusted." In the special classrooms they...
Although St. Louis started testing for gifted students three years ago, only one batch of 250 gifted sixth-graders (out of the 7,000 or so youngsters who reach sixth grade each year) has been exposed to the advanced program so far. How has it affected them? In natural sciences, science reading and vocabulary the gifted sixth-graders moved from average ninth-grade work to work comparable to that done by the upper fourth of ninth-grade classes...
...vastly accelerated their social development (thus seeming to refute the theory that isolation of the intellectually gifted tends, to stunt their social growth). With a new batch of gifted sixth-graders starting the program this fall and last year's special sixth-graders moving on to special "seventh"-grade classes, nine new classrooms are being set aside for advanced work. Next fall a third set of nine classrooms will be added to carry the program on through the junior-high-school level...
...much of the surplus by stepping up grants and loans to underdeveloped nations, selling the rest. Though the U.S. is flatly against "dumping," i.e., selling at any price, it has moved into world markets with a big program to dispose of some 7,000,000 bales of high-grade Government-owned cotton abroad at competitive world prices by subsidizing U.S. exporters, has already sold 3,000,000 bales. On the total, the U.S. stands to lose as much as $220 million (it paid 32? per Ib. for the cotton, can sell it for, at most...