Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yatter of Britain for the ensuing three years, in which some 2 million G.l.'s bought and bulled their way through England's gray and rationed land. In turn, the Yanks were in a real sense repossessed by the nation they had shucked since 1776 and sixth-grade history...
...Colonel Hal B. Rhyne, deputy commandant, a new full-time job: handling honor code questions and issues. He then replaced the cadets' honor committees with an "internal review panel" that will conduct the initial hearings in cases of alleged violations. The panel is made up of three field-grade officers (major and above) and two cadets who next year will be first classmen (seniors). Still not satisfied, Berry created four separate subcommittees to investigate cheating in the junior class, where the scandal is centered. Finally, he ordered the entire junior class to stay on at the Point after graduation...
...case at many U.S. colleges and universities, there is constant pressure to get good grades (see following story). The "goats," with the low marks, sit at the back of a classroom, while the "engineers" sit up front and get special privileges. Still the electrical engineering exam that is at the root of the current scandal was worth only 5% of the final grade in that course. Indeed the students being hauled before the Honor Committee included good students as well as borderline cases...
...Grade, chairman of Associated Television Corp., Ltd.: a life peerage. Rotund, cigar-chomping Grade, a Russian immigrant (ne Win-ogradsky), began life as a music-hall performer and became a prominent showbiz impresario...
Some school boards are beginning to get downright unreasonable about requirements for a high school diploma. Just two months ago, the New York State Board of Regents agreed unanimously that the state's high school pupils should pass a ninth-grade reading and mathematics examination in order to graduate (TIME, April...