Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty also voted to follow last year's policy of waiving minimum grade requirements for some educationally disadvantaged students failing courses. Last year, six out of 27 educationally disadvantaged students-all of them black-failed courses, but only three were forced to withdraw...
...suppose your readers are ignorant of the always fascinating and valuable history of grade "reform" at the Harvard Law School, and will not appreciate the full humor of the suggestions reported in your paper on February 4, that there is some unfairness in requiring a B+ average for graduation Cum Laude from the Harvard Law School. A very few years ago the faculty voted to designate as B-all grades 65-68 Previously this was a C grade. This was done on the strength of the argument that the Law School is a graduate school, and it is well known...
...what about education? "Limited possibilities." The lower-class child has an outlook completely antithetical to education. So, reduce the school-leaving age to 14 (grade 9) and encourage (or perhaps require) boys who are unable or unwilling to go to college to take a full-time job or else enter military service or a civilian youth corps...
...Until Conn evaluates his findings, he can only guess. In this society, he says, dependency is a female role. Hence, little girls openly seeking approval can readily be accepted; they are not violating the rules. The male role, on the other hand, sets a premium on independence, even in grade school. Thus when Conn's male subjects too nakedly showed their need to be liked, they were doomed to rejection...
...problem-raiser, The Master Game is provocative and imaginative material. Its merciless assault on the ego is painfully apt for those of us who get caught up in the intellectual one-upmanship of Harvard. Tagged from grade school as "gifted children," herded together during Orientation Week for pronouncements on how "special" we are glad-handed by proud relatives and deified by guidance counselors. we can use as many reminders of our biological spiritual identity as we can get. If we remember that DeRopp, like the rest of us, has a firmer grasp of the questions than of the answers, reading...