Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty, he charged, is racist. "The Faculty itself fulfilling its lower expectation of black student's at grade time. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy," Anderson said...
...Census definition of literacy is based only on whether an individual has completed the fourth or fifth grade...
...green and brown tile floors, the closely shaven mathematics teachers, the Art Deco furniture-all preserved through the years an unwitting museum of redolent nostalgia. The scaled-down desks, the dwarfed nation of students, the knee-high urinals-all attested to the passage of time. The clots of eighth-grade hoydens with their manila complexions and pink eraser thighs attested to my eternal puerility. Most of the boys, however, still on the verge of their powerful pubescence, still four feet eleven, flitted unsuspectingly down the corridors like little frightened birds...
THEY ALL know what is wrong with things. They don't know how or why they are wrong, but they sense the world's difficulties as a vague and unapproachable collage of images. When we were in eighth grade, we slept along with the somnambulant decade. But, thanks to an increasingly intrusive media system and the awakening of their older brothers, the enormity of the world cannot be hid from these students...
...Environmental Education) to work out, says GEE! Vice President William Chapman, a complete teaching program and to distribute the book. All 20,000 copies have since been sold (at cost) to schools in Philadelphia-plus Houston, San Mateo, Columbus, Ohio, and six cities in New Jersey. Despite its grade school language, the book is used by sophomores studying architecture at the University of North Dakota...