Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students in the elementary schools seem unwilling to learn. Perhaps both students and teachers know that in most cases education is not a path leading to the executive suite, but a way of biding one's time before going to work on the assembly line. The number of fourth grade students who score significantly below the national average on standardized tests is almost ten times the number of students whose scores exceed the national average. Educators complain about a lack of money for proper facilties. Under the current system of property tax finance for public schools, it is especially difficult...
...Communists and Nasserites, Egyptian Communist Writer Fathi Abdel Fattah tells of leftists imprisoned during Nasser's reign who were not allowed to wear shoes even while being forced to do hard labor in desert areas infested by scorpions and snakes. Another anti-Nasser book, called Second Grade in Prison by Mustafa Amin, a prominent rightist who spent nine years in Nasser's jails, charges that 21 political prisoners were murdered in their cells in 1957 simply because they refused to do hard labor...
...French government mint. There are, of course, penalties (up to two years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend of $5 a year. On the other hand, the red ribbon sometimes impresses policemen and plumbers, and according to one recipient, "it helps to get better service in restaurants...
...school bathrooms. Schafft says there are no records of physical attacks there, but "the verbal assaults are frightening enough to cause many children to avoid the bathrooms for the entire school year." Several whites admitted they went home for lunch solely to avoid using the school lavatory; one fifth-grade child wet his pants rather than venture into the toilet...
Cuisenaire, who became the head of his local grade school in Thuin in 1934, retired 13 years later to complete work on his invention and to publish his findings in a book, Nombres En Couleur (1951). Cuisenaire's brainchild was a set of ten different colored wooden rods ranging in length from...