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THIRD, Curle and Whitten called for the abolition of grades and traditional tenure requirements. Grading, they suggested, "is not only unreliable and subjective, but has an insidious effect on student-faculty relationships." As for tenure, if the School was going to redefine academic standards for students and admissions requirements for...
IN AREAS where the administration had to take the initiative there has been little apparent progress. The Ed School's Faculty Committee on Academic Policy is now considering the report's grading proposal, with no sure indication of when it will make a decision. Sizer's position on tenure is...
AND THE FACULTY intransigeance on grading is not what it seems. Two years ago, with Sizer's backing, the Faculty voted a laissez-faire policy on grading -- professors are completely free to decide whether or not they want to give finals or grades. Now, over half the Ed School's...
Sizer apparently expects change in urban curriculum to follow the example of grading policy -- a slow and persistent evolution. Whether his policy works will depend to a large degree on the students and faculty who are supposedly pushing for change.
He said he understood the Committee's question of who would be "running" the course as who would be grading it and answered that he and Harvard graduate students would be responsible for grading. The CEP did not ask him for a list of sectionmen.