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No Wailing. "In 1926 the school was a teacher's paradise," recalls Marson. A boy knew precisely what he was up against, from six years of English and Latin to weekly essays and monthly reports. The school banned curve-grading (the clod-coddling system based on the class average...
Leathery, blue-eyed Victor L. Butterfield, 56, is no man to blame The Bomb or The Affluent Society. The main cause of student lethargy, says he, is the "paternalistic" U.S. system of spoon-fed lectures and assembly-line grading. "We treat students more as prep-school boys than as adults...
After that, Greenleaf increased its population to 12,000 laying hens and 10,000 breeders, ordered a new hatchery put up near the old warehouse, built a cleaning, grading and packing plant outside Beirut. Greenleaf also sparked an upturn in sales of chickens, once deemed strictly a rich man'...
Improving the quality of tutorial instruction--which Dean Bundy has called "unfinished business at all American colleges"--is part of a problem that has a lot to do with the relationship between the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Innocents, after alleging that too many graduate...
Compared with most U.S. public-school systems, Hansen's English composition program is downright revolutionary. Theme writing starts as early as the second grade, and students in the two top high school tracks are required to write 24 themes a year. To help in the time-consuming grading job...