Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dallas parents and children for the first time this fall, is an 8½-in. by 14-in. number-filled sheet that looks more like a page from a company audit than a report card. To assist them in deciphering the report, which is used for kindergarten through third grade, pupils' parents are supplied with a 32-page booklet called Your Child Starts School and a 28-page manual with the remarkable title Terminal Behavioral Objectives for Continuous Progression Modules in Early Childhood Education. Says School Board Member James Jennings, who labeled the whole package a "monster": "Seventy percent...
Carrier said the commission will examine the grade statistics in its investigation. The statistics "give some indication of the extent the information seems to have mattered," he said...
Donald Brown doesn't really cut the image of the Harvard filmmaker. A black Minnesotan from a small community, he decided in the ninth grade to make a movie based on Edgar Allen Poe's elegaic prose poem Ligeia. Since then he's made a number of films, including a feature called Negatives when he was a freshman here. But it's strange. He's no cinema pedant--far from it, and he doesn't major in Visual Studies. He likes Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Blow-up, nothing fancy. Nothing experimental or avant-garde for him. He makes full...
Perhaps as many as 80 per cent of the present student body would not be attending Harvard today if the admissions committee had to chose those applicants with the highest grade and test score index (which, in fact, is the reason Marco DeFunis claims he should have been admitted to the University of Washington Law School...
...consider the plaza first: the former slope around Lamont represents a grade change of about nine feet. Hazardous in icy weather, the slope will now be replaced by two sets of stairs--one at the lower level entrance to Lamont, and one near the entrance to the Pusey Library (parallel to Widener's main entry). Unlike the grand stairway of Widener or the less monumental stairways of University Hall, the new stairs do not function as the specific entrance to a specific place, but rather as an integral element of the Yard's pedestrian paths...