Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eckstein said that he is not interested in giving Carter a grade in the same manner as one of his Ec 10 students. He added that he felt "presidents should be judged by history, not on December 31; by results, not by style." It is too early to evaluate Carter because the president didn't anticipate the difficulties he has had with Congress, Wilson said...
...shaken the city's school system. After high school, the upwardly mobile but poor New Yorker went on to the City University of New York (CUNY), which sported free tuition upon admission. It wasn't the Ivy League, but a CUNY education was a good one, and it took grades to get into one of the CUNY schools, like Brooklyn College or City College. In the 1970s, the pressures of an egalitarian society brought on the policy of open admissions, which guaranteed a place in one of the CUNY colleges to anyone graduating from a New York City public high...
...Faculty votes to restrict enrollment in the Economics, Biology, Biochemistry, Government, and English Departments to 15. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 praises the move, adding. "Maybe they'll do something about grade inflation...
...called black English. Her pupils, many of whom do not know the alphabet when they arrive, take standardized tests at the beginning and end of each year to measure their ability. Their progress has been phenomenal. Many jump from well below to well above their actual grade level. One, Ericka McCoy, 8, was assigned to a class for the mentally retarded before enrolling at Westside last year. Today she is reading at the tenth-grade level...
...Jiminezes have lived in North House since 1974. Pamela Jiminez was not a tutor in the House but was involved in House activities, organizing occasional social events. She taught first grade in West Bridgewater...