Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought everything to the series but imagination and talent. The act ing is spotty, the direction glacially slow. The characters have as much life as the figures in the dioramas at a museum of natural history, and The Best of Families is as interminable as a ninth-grade history class on the last Friday before vacation...
...College Board found that scores of top students ?valedictorians and salutatorians in 145 high schools?showed a similar decline. Graduates who claim that they are illiterate have taken school boards to court in some states. Meanwhile, colleges complain of entering freshmen who read at the sixth-grade level...
...fiction, film studies and business communications (considered easy) or British literature (harder). An array of general math and essential math courses has sprouted in the mathematics department, traditionally regarded as the best in the school. Although four years of English are mandatory standard survey courses stop after the tenth grade. No foreign language is required. Students must take two years of science and one of math, or vice versa, but the choice of courses is left to their discretion...
Eric Fried, in his article "Class Conflict a la Harvard," asks: "Are freshmen competitive, grade-hungry overachievers, or are they idyllic, innocent waifs who are 'testing their wings'?" I hope those are not the only two options because we are, on the whole, neither. The problem with Mr. Fried's article arises from his tone. All those condescending remarks about freshmen do not aid his credibility as one who truly cares about the plight of first-year students. As a matter of fact, the overall impression is left that Mr. Fried is much more concerned about the level to which...
Norm has been going out to Walpole every week for over a year now. In October, after being kept back in school for three years, he moved into the 10th grade. His record has been clean for a number of months...