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Year-round schools can also be a way to use facilities more efficiently. Some overcrowded schools stagger students into different tracks, ensuring that a fraction of the student body will be away during every grading period. Socorro schools were able to serve 2,000 more children during the 1993-94...
Since 1970, Stanford University -- one of the nation's most prestigious -- has been peppering its student transcripts with As and Bs (93% of all grades awarded) and letting scholars bail out of uncongenial courses up to the very day of final exams with no questions asked. But last week the...
But for the Faculty, the new calendar would have forced them to spend their vacations grading final papers and exams and preparing for their second-semester courses.
The students then spent 12 weeks this semester student-teaching at area high schools, assuming full teaching responsibilities for three high school classes. They prepared their own lesson plans, grading scales and weekly tests.
And these questions of privacy extend to the faculty as well, Damon said. "Some professors feel that it's perhaps not anyone's business what sort of grading scale they use," she said.