Word: grading
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Failing to Make the Grade...
...teacher and parent, I give No Child Left Behind (NCLB) a failing grade [June 4]. There is no way to fix a law that operates under the flawed assumption that tests rather than teachers should govern curriculum. Testing is simply a tool for measuring learning in the same way that a thermometer is an instrument for reading temperature. What would happen to the health of a nation if lawmakers tried to force doctors to spend a large portion of their time taking patients' temperatures instead of practicing medicine? The reality of NCLB is that it allows few children...
...cover you gave NCLB a C. ANY government program that gets a grade of C is a stunning success--leave it alone...
...taken Techrosette Leng ’07 a while to grow into her unusual name. During a sixth grade spelling bee, the principal called her “Techroshit.” But she has since come to embrace her name and the cultural identity attached to it. Leng, known as “Tech” among her friends, will travel to Cambodia next year under the George Peabody Gardner fellowship. Her tentative plans involve working for a non-profit to provide urban women the “entrepreneurial tools” to market the silk-weaving they produce...
...went into these courses knowing that they would probably lower my grade point average and that I’d have to spend more time on them than on classes in my concentration. But because I learned not to go into these courses expecting perfection, they were all the more worthwhile...