Word: graders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main reason for the spiriting away and destruction of bluebooks is time. It is a long and tiring process for the grader or instructor to answer the often foolish gripes of a mass of unsatisfied undergraduates. But examining and answering these complaints and questions should be just as much a part of education as marking the exams, perhaps even more so. One chief aspect of effective learning is full knowledge of results; the Social Relations people have worked up some ingenious little experiments proving this...
...kids sing cowboy tunes and spirituals, and the songs of mines and railroads. But mostly, their heads are filled with the heroes that grew as the nation grew. "It's more fun than arithmetic," said one eighth-grader. "I wish we had a blue ox like Babe out on my dad's ranch. I'll bet she'd dig him a stock pond just like she dug Lake Michigan...
...doubled the number of library card holders. He had eight reading groups going, plowing through everything from Plato to the Bill of Rights. But he is proudest of the schoolkids he has turned into book lovers-the little Negro girl who read 150 books in one summer; the seventh-grader who produced a letter from his teacher saying he was smart enough to read adult books and then asked for a volume of Toynbee; the 8,000 kids enrolled in his summer reading program. Says Jacobs: "I think a child who reads, who creates new interests, will never be delinquent...
After more than five hours, only two contestants were left-14-year-olds Darrell Flavelle and Jean Chappelear. Jean, a blonde eighth-grader in the Ravenna (Ohio) Township School, had been boning up for weeks. She had been taking word lists on her baby-sitting jobs-and even...
...Administrator Paul G. Hoffman got a mash note from a first-grader back in South Bend (where his Studebaker plant stands). "My daddy is a preacher," said the letter, "and he said if we had more men like you he would not have to preach so hard. I love...