Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which is designed to prepare the student to accept such relationships on the job in later life. Grades teach the student to separate the "value" of his work from the pleasure or displeasure that it may have given him, thus ensuring that he will fit smoothly into an economic system which demands that workers respond predictably to purely economic incentives. And grades instill in the student that respect for individual achievement and corresponding disdain for group effort and cooperation which are essential to the functioning of a capitalist economy. In short, the Soc Sci 125 petition holds that the grading...
...making this argument, the Soc Sci 125 petition has demonstrated that grades can be viewed as an open intellectual issue rather than as a natural, timeless form of classroom organization. The truth of this does not depend on the validity of the petition's economic analysis of the grading system: simply by arguing their case, the Soc Sci 125 teachers have made grading a matter for debate...
...What about peace and race demonstrations? Are the problems being solved in other ways? If so, how? What was the reaction on campus to the riots at Columbia and San Francisco State? Will there be more demonstrations in the future? How good, how sound is the present day educational system...
...critical problem facing the nation as the need to build more highways. As on several other issues, Maddox was more than a few years behind the times. Fortunately the governor has gone back to Georgia, but indications are that the men now in charge of the nation's transportation system share at least some of his views...
...administration has vastly expanded the country's highways in a very short period of time. The long belts of concrete which cut across the western states were the most important development in that part of the country since the completion of the transcontinental railroad a century ago. The highway system was such a universally praised program that its supporters began to think of it as the answer to almost all the nation's ills...