Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grade received in organic chemistry is generally considered to be one of the most important factors in a medical school's evaluation of an applicant. Chem 20 is the only introductory organic course in the College...
Borden will try to grade his section this Spring fairly, he said yesterday. "People will get what they deserve. I'm not setting the median. It will depend on the performance of the group. The graduate course I taught this fall had an A-median," he said...
...telling the 500 listeners that he would require a termpaper and a final examination, Nozick joked that everyone would receive "Incompletes" pending the continuation of their lives. After 15 years, he suggested, everyone would write to him what they had done since taking the course and he would then grade their lives--C minus for example...
...outlook of the situation comedy where bumbling parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or the soapopera where the sappy organ music aptly complements the artificial emotional crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses into the personal lives of renowned families such as Edward R. Murrow provided in his "Person-to-Person" series, or the televised tragedies of political assassinations, the airwaves have been empty...
...double set of problems which Miles faces as a black college. Education at Miles confronts fundamental problems of race and social structure. Seventyfive per cent of Miles' 1200 students receive Federal poverty assistance, and the average Miles freshman--like his counterpart in most black colleges--has only ninth-grade level reading skills. "They can't dig up the money or the SAT scores to draw attention to themselves," Monro says, "and for a place like Harvard, they're totally out of reach." Furthermore, most Miles freshmen have spent 18 years in the black neighborhoods of Birmingham; their contact with...