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...always ask how can we take these ideas and apply them to our lives. In other words, it is a very applied class where the students hopefully use the ideas to become happier and to help others become happier.6.FM: So if the course is about happiness, how do you grade it? Smiles?TBS: [Laughter] No, a smile is a B, a laugh is an A. As I said, the course is graded like any other course. [...] They have to learn a lot of material and the [exam] questions are no different. They have to describe theory and talk about ideas...
...retest for students who initially fail the exam. Tenth-graders who score below the passing level of 220 points on the MCAS when it is first administered can retake the test twice a year until they graduate. A score of at least 240 points is required for a grade of proficient. The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires that all students achieve proficiency by 2014, punishing those that do not. But according to Fowler-Finn, because the MCAS caps retest scores at 238 points, students who retake the test cannot score at the proficient level—the level...
After several Faculty members spoke in favor of the reforms, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 drew a link between the course evaluation process and grade inflation...
...prerequisites. One is an unshakable belief in children's capacity to learn. "Anyone without this has no business in the classroom," says Margaret Gayle, an expert on gifted education at Duke University, who has trained thousands of teachers in North Carolina. Another requirement, especially in the upper grades, is a deep knowledge of one's subject. According to research on teacher efficacy by statistician William Sanders, the higher the grade, the more closely student achievement correlates to a teacher's expertise in her field. Nationally, that's a problem. Nearly 30% of middle- and high school classes in math, English...
...Chants of "Grade inflation!" from the Terriers fans. My transcript says otherwise...