Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From a Science Research Associates third-grade reader...
...From a Harper & Row fourth-grade reader...
...accused of being a Communist. Audiences simply would not countenance what seemed to them a false show of morality. Verdoux was given favorable notice by only a handful of critics, and in two years of circulation it reached only about one-sixth as many theaters as the average grade B movie...
Matson, who first played hockey in seventh grade, went out for the Radcliffe team two years ago and has been the goalie ever since. However, her greatest service to the sport has not been on the field but in promoting its status in the Harvard athletic hierarchy...
There is a third point which, like the preceding two, is an extension of one of the basic myths of public education. It is the myth of free and unmanipulated options. The university-extension of this grade-school self-deceit is the idea which liberal jargon calls "the open market of ideas." Intellectuals from Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. write often--and with considerable alarm--of those within the Rebel Left who seek to undermine, subvert, destroy the so-called "open conflict" of competitive ideas which universities pretend to be. Even in those sub-sections of the major universities--Law, Medicine...