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On a country road outside Atlanta one day in 1945, a well-dressed man stopped his car to watch a farmer and his son laboriously grading a small field with the help of a decrepit old mule. The sight was a common one in the South, and it was not...
"The American child does not know how to study. He has never been taught, and so he thinks only of grades-not of education. ... In England we do not waste time grading; we go through the year and then have examinations to determine the amount of learning. [U.S.] children ... are...
I have traveled considerably over this broad land of ours and everywhere--except here--a milk shake is a milk shake. I object to this up-grading to a fancy status denoted as "FRAPPE," which (including the French name) costs more than the original product. --G. W. S., Nieman '47...
¶The right to a 45-hour week. (Teachers, he says, average 70 hours on classroom work, pupil and parent guidance, grading papers, leading community activities.)
By last week the marine-and more than 500,000 other veterans and civilians -had earned a new kind of sheepskin called an "equivalency certificate." Equivalencies are the year-old idea of the American Council on Education, which saw the need of grading special cases with the right knowledge but...