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Fourth-course pass-fail neither emphasizes nor emphasizes grades, but merely redistributes them. A pass-fail plan like the one enacted this year by Yale, whatever its limits, is of a qualitatively different sort. The Yale plan alters the university's whole grading structure instead of giving students a single...
At Harvard there has been insufficient discussion of long-range grading policy, and the current pass-fail plan should not become a substitute for that discussion.
Conant suggested that a uniform standard of marking and grading at secondary schools could eliminate the need for College Entrance Board examinations. "There should be a sample testing of the schools to determine grading and standards," he said.
After a year-long study, the faculty of Yale's undergraduate college last week voted to drop its present 40-to-100 numerical grading (60 is passing). Starting immediately professors instead will give one of four possible scores: fail, pass, high pass or honors. While many schools now give...
Sophomore tutorial should become an ungraded half-course for credit. The department should give students the time to make tutorial the substantial academic experience it now has the potential of being. And grading would only restrict the student's chances to experiment with the field he is beginning and would...