Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOW EXPECTATIONS are particularly insidious when they are coupled with the institution of "tracking" or ability grouping. Most urban schools group children according to ability as soon as they enter first grade. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out who gets placed in the low ability groups. The...
"I particularly don't want to be formally affiliated with any particular institution while I'm in London," Gill said, but added that he would probably spend some time at the London School of Economics.
For many years the Law School has had confidence in the precision with which grades take the measure of the man. "If one fellow got 76 and another 76.5," said Felix Frankfurter, "there's no use saying, 'The 76 man is better.' Maybe so, but how do you know he...
...Everyone is taking the same courses and competing for the same positions and grades. One person's success depends upon the failure of many others. Competition is a reality in our lives, now and in the future, but the competition at the Law School is extraordinary. It is an institutionalized competition which many of us did not bargain for when we made our decision to study law. It causes many of us to compete against our mates in an atmosphere of isolation, suspicion, and hostility unmatched at almost any other educational institution. Serious students such as those in law school...
Other nations have alcoholics, but Skid Row-urban colonies of alienated men-is strictly an American institution.*It was the first serious U.S. welfare problem and, in a way, one of its first social-protest movements; at least as much as the hippies, Skid Row inhabitants are dropouts from a...