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Many liberal educators agree that grades are a bad way to measure student achievement. Says Education Professor Sidney B. Simon of the University of Massachusetts: "The grading system is the most destructive, demeaning and pointless thing in American education. It allows certain administrative conveniences-permitting assistant principals to decide who...
The economy certainly has not shaken clear of all its problems. The Government reported last week that consumer prices in September rose one-half of 1%-more than double the August increase-and the growth of gross national product slowed, as expected, to an annual rate of 5.9% in the...
Bamberg said that grading in Physics-1 does not emphasize the student's section performance, and that women have usually had higher averages than men his courses.
The pioneer in these experiments is Britain's Open University. Launched by the Labor government in 1969, Open University now has 35,000 housewives, truck drivers and even soldiers studying toward bachelor's degrees in various fields of science and the arts. It has no formal entrance requirements...
People don't turn on the radio to hear smart stuff; they turn it on to make them feel good or keep them company when they're lonely or keep them busy when they're bored. If you want to hear smart stuff, you can go listen to some Harvard...