Word: grading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suit wasn't going to grade us and his stories weren't going to help us pass our board exams. It showed; the general surgery team fidgeted and rocked as he spoke to us at early Saturday morning "guest-attending rounds." He was a little stooped and white-haired, but no geezer. He wasn't one of our Ivy league professors of surgery, specialists in their elite yet narrow fields, but rather a 70-year-old doctor who had gone to our medical school before there was penicillin. He'd lived out his career someplace in Western New York - someplace...
...rankings revolt will fail without public support, not because such endeavors aren't virtuous but because the majority of Americans are getting what they want from higher education, at a price most are willing to pay. That education as commerce has led to such marketing aberrations as college rankings, grade inflation and other competitive amenities shouldn't be a surprise to anyone familiar with Pogo's dictum, "We have met the enemy...
...Getting into Harvard has been his dream since fifth grade, he said...
...elsewhere. He invests in start-ups, mostly in health care and education, the two sectors he believes are in deepest crisis. One company, Extended Care Information Network, automates the difficult process of finding extended-care facilities for debilitated patients. Another, Experiencia Inc., is an educational venture that puts grade-schoolers through eight-week courses in economics and science and then immerses them in simulations that bring their learning to life--running a city, dealing with an ecological disaster...
...side of the law from Tony, but he has likewise made ugly choices and bargains. From House to Prison Break to Shark, dramas are now full of lessons that the good are imperfect, that justice can come at a moral price and that sometimes you have to be a grade-A tool to get the job done...