Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little girls who actively bid for the approval of other little girls their age? They get it. And what happens to little boys who crave popularity with other little boys? They are scorned. This somewhat unsettling conclusion has been drawn from an experiment staged at two suburban Boston grade schools by Psychologist Lane K. Conn of Boston's Northeastern University. With two research assistants. who suggested the experiment, Conn rated 192 fifth-and sixth-graders on a scale that measured their need for approval. Then his subjects were asked, among other things, to pick the three classmates they would...
...point plan to improve medical education he suggested that such competitive practices as ranking by grade poin average and grading on a curve should be eliminated...
...group of second-year law students has renewed the controversy over grade reform at the Law School by issuing a proposal which calls for a completely optional grading system for all three years...
Since 1950 he has built them entirely of high-grade aluminum, working first with sketches, then wooden models, and finally delivering precise mechanical drawings to a machinist who produces the carefully milled pieces. He finishes them off himself with several coats of spray paint...
...Smith's reforming impulse was rooted in a compassion he learned from the near-slum environment in which he grew up. He was born to slightly better than average circumstances on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1873. After quitting school at the eighth grade, he worked at a variety of jobs-including hawking the day's catch...