Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important a goal to Weeks as gaining acceptance of the profession. She quickly points out the other skills and second jobs many prostitutes have--"We are church goers, PTA-goers and mothers," Lewis says of the women he worked with, "Some had dropped out of the seventh or eighth grade; others had master's degrees...
...them work, I make them think. But they're glad afterward." He conducts his classes as vigorous discussion groups Margaret Burdg, who has the prim and proper air of an old-fashioned English teacher, team-teaches with History Teacher Connell an English-history course called American Culture. She says grade inflation has lowered a D from 68 to 60 and, in some classes, all the way to 50. Another teacher complains that there is great pressure to pass students "If my failure rate exceeds 12%, I'll be questioned," he says. "Someone would likely ask me if I weren...
Students tend to rate Marshfield an easy school. They teach you how to write in tenth grade, but then you don't get to exercise it enough," is an oft-heard lament; so is "They don t push you enough." Senior Brenda Steward is having no trouble fielding trigonometry, chemistry and British literature along with a 30-hour-a-week waitress job at a local restaurant called the Green Bandit. Says she: "Teachers don't assign homework; they don't believe in it." (The teachers' version, however, is that many students will not do homework when it is assigned.) Adds...
...about academic danger signs. Composite scores on the ACT test, an Iowa-bred competitor of the SAT exam, have been drifting downward since 1972. Meanwhile, almost 70% of the West seniors who took the ACT test this year had a grade point average of 3 or higher out of a possible 4, compared with only 39% in 1970. For the past four years, A's have been the most commonly awarded grade. Says Senior Kyle Schulz: "If you get a C, that's terrible...
Last week New York authorities charged that critical phases of Mirando's hip implant were done not by his surgeons but by a medical-equipment salesman who had no more than an eighth-grade education. Calling it "the most scandalous case it has ever been my duty to prosecute," the Suffolk County, N.Y., district attorney has already obtained indictments against the two doctors, as well as the anesthesiologist, supervisory nurse and hospital, charging them with second-degree assault and the attempted cover-up of a crime. The four individuals have pleaded not guilty. But state investigators say that...