Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scant connection between them. The average Negro high school class was seven students larger than classes in the white high schools. Few Negro high schools could afford to offer the special remedial courses which students coming to Washington from the South urgently needed. One reading test given to eighth-grade Negro students found them lagging behind white students by roughly three years...
Free Rovers. Physicist Bacher described one way of doing it. At Caltech, he reported, there is now a course known only as Physics X, conducted by Dr. Richard Feynman for students with top-grade averages. It carries no academic credit and is totally unplanned. Theoretical Physicist Feynman has established only two course rules: "Questions can't be prompted by some other Caltech course, and they have to be prompted by some natural phenomenon." In 18 months Feynman's gifted students, mostly sophomores and juniors, have pushed far beyond the standard range into subjects, e.g., quantum mechanics and relativity...
Letters from viewers pour in at a rate of 1,500 a week. "The kids' requests show the effect of comic books," says Baker sadly. "They're always wanting horrible things like two trains crashing into each other at 90 miles an hour." An entire grade of Minneapolis schoolchildren wrote in asking to see Joan of Arc burned at the stake. There was only one dissenter in the class: he wanted to see a ship blow up in midocean...
...said to myself, 'Why. that sounds like a shrimp.'" Twelve-year-old Susan's tune promptly became Minuet of the Shrimp, one of 300 tunes, poems, dances submitted by 60 sixth-grade pupils of Cincinnati's suburban North Avondale Public School for inclusion in a group cantata, a sweeping experiment at musical education. Last week they had the thrill of performing their work with a professional symphony orchestra. The project began a year ago, when the Cincinnati Symphony played at one of its popular children's concerts a cantata called Moon Rocket, a musical trip...
...unlike other institutions, Graham does not segregate its children by ages. "A six-year-old," says Director Thomas, "looks not so much to an adult for his model as to a nine-year-old. That's the hierarchy of family living we try to keep." Through the sixth grade, children attend classes at the school. After that, they go to regular public schools in Hastings or Yonkers...