Word: ungradedness
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AND THE FACULTY intransigeance on grading is not what it seems. Two years ago, with Sizer's backing, the Faculty voted a laissez-faire policy on grading -- professors are completely free to decide whether or not they want to give finals or grades. Now, over half the Ed School's...
Despite their confrontation, both Shanker and McCoy have proved their willingness to deal with the real problem of New York City's schools: the fact that instruction somehow fails to benefit enough students, particularly those from ghetto areas. A 19-year veteran of the city school system, McCoy has...
But the HPC shrewdly dropped the financially tricky rider of a free fifth course (part of their original scheme) and were given a political boost by Yale's highly publicized "pass-fail" plan late in the fall. More important was a lot of routine political legwork--testimony before the CEP...
Combined with the fourth-course pass-fail plan the Faculty approved last Fall, yesterday's action will give almost every student in the College the option of taking one of his four courses without a grade. But the pass-fail legislation set a limit of one ungraded course per term...
The Faculty fooled Dean Ford this Tuesday by halting its debate after an hour and approving a plan which will allow all students here to take a quarter of their college courses ungraded. The approval wasn't surprising, but its briskness was. The Dean's eventual adoption has been insured...