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Precisely what the system was, nobody could say for sure. Investigators found about 1,300 "discrepancies" in grading and classed 190 of them as "flagrant." One history student got an F and a C in two marking periods, but averaged a C on his transcript. A pupil with two F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Get into College | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

Principal LeVine denied that he had ever ordered such false grading on the transcripts. As best as anyone could make out, the marks were entered by two kindly clerks, Mrs. Ellen Sjogren, 62, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lammlin, 37, who claimed that LeVine merely signed batches of blank forms, which the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Get into College | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

Isaac Kramnick '59, who will be head tutor in Government next year, said that the basic reason for the projected change in the grading of senior tutorial is that the grade in Gov 99 is usually super-flous. "The grade has stood all these years because the official description of...

Author: By Beth Edelmann, | Title: Department to Propose No Grades for Gov 99 | 6/2/1965 | See Source »

Griswold's remarks were part of a memorandum on grading blue books sent to the faculty on May 12. Members of the Law Faculty contacted yesterday said they considered the suggestions part of a normal review of grading policy. Griswold's remarks were suggestions and not binding on individual professors...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Griswold Wants More High Grades, Failures | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

"Similarly," Griswold wrote, "we continue to have difficulty in producing an adequate number of high marks, particularly in the light of the caliber of those who are admitted here. Of course, we should not have 'inflation' in grading and I do not think that it is helpful to have a...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Griswold Wants More High Grades, Failures | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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