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Intuitive Grading. Grayson believes that entrepreneurs succeed by freeing themselves from convention. So he immediately threw out all required courses except an orientation seminar that concentrates on sensitivity training and meditation. "We are interested not just in rational Western thought but in the intuitive, noncognitive approach," he says. Otherwise, students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Bootstrap Teaching | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

This novel approach has spawned novel problems. Professors face a nightmare in grading students on intangibles like imagination, integrity and initiative. Moreover, the basic idea has so far flunked the ultimate business test: profit. No student enterprise has yet run in the black-even though many are guided by John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Bootstrap Teaching | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

Option B of the Contract provides for the up-grading of 23 present employees. Trainees receive instruction in English and Mathematics, on-the-job training, typing lessons and counselling.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Affirmative Action Plan | 10/5/1971 | See Source »

Still, if the board members were grading the specifics of the President's program, the report card would be mixed. They would generally give him an A-plus for reviving the nation's confidence, an A-minus for tackling inflation, a C on his plans for reviving the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Assessing the New Program | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

When the issue of grade reform reached a heated peak in 1969. Bok and a few other Law professors called each member of the faculty at home and arranged discussion groups with students about grading. It was during this same crisis that Bok, at 12:30 a.m., walked in on...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: The Changing of the Guard... | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

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