Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intense drive to make it to the top of the academic ladder is inexplicable at best. Departmental honors and undergraduate theses make little or no difference in determining an undergraduate's future: by the time departmental honors are awarded and the theses are graded, graduate schools have sent out their acceptances. In some cases, a high grade on the undergraduate thesis will help in getting into a second graduate school, but even in this instance, the master's work done in the first grad school is the primary factor...
...father getting to know his wife and children, a family learning to be a family again. "The kids are going 90 m.p.h. and I'm going ten," says Ken. "It's hard understanding a 17-year-old high school senior when you last knew her as a grade school child...
...involvement of the high school group is particulary surprising in an age when American high schoolers are supposedly growing more cynical. Local tenth and eleventh grade girls sell programs at the stadium and the ground crew is made up largely of high school boys...
...They probably wanted to protect their own performance," Lewitt explained. "We grade on a curve, and prior knowledge would be an unfair advantage...
...through changes in design and operating processes. Recycling can also produce big savings. In the nonferrous-metals industry, for example, recycling uses only 20% as much energy as is required to refine the metal originally. Freeman stressed the point: "Our solid wastes by and large contain a better-grade ore than our mines...