Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's board of regents last week voted unanimously to require all high school students in the state to pass a ninth-grade reading and mathematics examination in order to graduate. Several of the regents hailed the new standard as a "giant leap forward." After all, the New York City board of higher education, seeking to restrict the "open admissions" policy of the City University of New York, decided last December to impose an even less taxing standard on college entrants: an eighth-grade reading level in English...
Perhaps other giant leaps forward are in the offing. An eleventh-grade examination for a bachelor's degree? A twelfth-grade examination for a Ph.D...
...Commands that set all the nation's warships, bombers and armies into instantaneous motion. Feats of diplomacy that bring peace to all the world. Are those the visions that are part of that classic American dream of growing up to be President? Apparently not. Michele Rosenfeld, a sixth-grade teacher in East Hartford, Conn., asked her 26 students for essays on "The Day I Became President." For nearly half of the class, it was less a dream than a nightmare: they saw themselves being assassinated...
...FACULTY COUNCIL'S recent recommendation that the Faculty vote to offer Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism," solely on a credit/non-credit basis represents a clear attempt to force professors to grade courses more strictly. If the recommendation is passed, students will be unable to take Nat Sci 36 to fill their General Education requirements. It is a course with obvious political content. But because its instructors do not follow the kind of grading practices the Faculty Council wishes to see enforced, a radical perspective on biological determinism will be virtually eliminated from the University's course offerings...
...some immaterial material that no one will look at, and that will just give me something more to file. But I would hate to see the day when someone pulls the plug and we're left to carbons and those fun mimeographs that I grew up on in grade school...