Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teodoru said the crowd was indulging "in third-grade bullshit." He offered one speaker from the crowd 10 of the 25 minutes he said he had been allotted. When no one came forward, Teodoru called the crowd "a pack of little animals. I could get the same sounds...
None of the rejections are final, however, and students may re-submit applications at any time. There is no grade cut-off point, Solomon said, nor a limit on the number of special concentrators...
Jenkins's experiences both in Fairbault and in his home town of Detroit-"in grade school they just used to pack us into the classrooms"-affected him deeply. Now in his freshman year at Harvard, he feels a firm commitment to forwarding the cause of his people...
...which tells a story in the fewest possible words and doesn't bore them with details. The result, of course, has been that English prose style has gone straight to Hell. The Erich Segals of this world are cleaning up on junk that shouldn't get them a passing grade in English...
...alienation and exploitation. But curriculum planning and teaching methods can take advantage of some of what is known about child development. A classroom structured around a child's needs and desires will be a happier and more productive place than one planned for someone else's purposes. A fourth grade class's improvisation of animals escaped from a barnyard and recaptured by a farmer and his family evoked my memories of long rows of very hard desks, very soft pencils, and very long sentences...