Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SINCE WE LEFT behind the days when everyone's stick-figure paintings were hung in our fourth grade classrooms, we seldom see the art work done by other students. In an effort to fill that gap, a group of Harvard photographers, with the support of Leverett House tutor Carol Cramer, have mounted a photography show at the Leverett Library. Changing exhibitors every week, the two-month long show will display the work of nine student photographers. If the succeeding offerings are as good as the first three have been, the show is well worth attending...
...emerge from behind the misty stereotype of smoke signals, tepees and Tonto. A chorus of angry voices has been making many demands: they call for everything from control of reservation lands and mineral rights to restoration of ancient tribal customs and the power to specify curriculums in Indian grade schools. The move to self-determination is characterized in the new cry: "Indian identification of Indian problems...
...years of existence, the BIA has been the subject of scorn from Indians and whites alike. As the protector of Indian resources and lands, the BIA wields enormous power over almost every aspect of reservation life. It runs Indian schools, from which most students drop out by the sixth grade. It is responsible for many housekeeping chores on the reservations: building and maintaining roads, overseeing construction of irrigation projects and providing welfare assistance. But the BIA does not provide services to the nearly 350,000 Indians who live off reservations. With 13,964 employees -56% of them Indians-the bureau...
...would be most of the current class, would be taught organic chemistry in a way which emphasizes its applications to biochemistry and to medicine, thus making the relevance of the material more evident and hopefully giving students some motivation to study the subject besides fear of a non-honors grade...
...teacher strike in the nation's history. It had lasted eleven weeks and two days (two days short of the 1971 Newark walkout) of mounting bitterness that will not soon die. "I don't think we'll even try to talk to the scabs," said Fifth Grade Teacher Anne Philips...