Word: graders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noting the wiry little man whom everyone in town seemed to treat with such respect, the visitor to Albuquerque, N. Mex. (pop. 160,000) naturally wanted to know who he was. The person he asked was a six-year-old Negro first-grader who happened to have his own ideas about School Superintendent John Milne. "You don't know who Mr. Milne is?" said the boy in amazement. "Why, Mr. Milne is boss of the whole world!" To hundreds of Albuquerque teachers and students, John Milne has indeed been a rare sort of boss. In his 45 years...
...with such embarrassing earnestness and intensity that it is impossible for a reader to associate himself with Todd to the extent that Weller demands. For example, Epes Todd writes what we are to believe is an exceptionally brilliant if not conventional set of answers to an hour exam. The grader makes a series of picayune and absurdly literal comments on the exam and give Todd a D. The reader is expected to cry out against the injustice of such treatment--the submission of a great mind to a small mind, the curbing of genius by academic procedure, etc.--when...
...place of controversy, the editorialists have substituted philosophical tomes which read as if they were written for a blue book. Much as it might tingle the cars of a grader, the editorial page is hardly the place for longwinded attempts beginning: "From Machiavelli's Italy to Hitler's Germany, double standards of morality have permitted national leaders to commit acts completely contradictory to their religious and moral beliefs." Or, "The highest role of the artist in society is to portray its values...
Bowl to Pot. Though it may vary somewhat from city to city, the method now used in most schools is a combination of systems. The educators admit that word recognitlon has its dangers. It is quite possible, as one Louisville mother reported of her son, for a third grader to type out b-o-w-l and call it pot, or for a pupil to develop the annoying habit of putting the President in the White Horse or assembling stamp collisions. But phonics alone can be equally disastrous. Though a pupil might be able to read the word institute right...
Beginning next fall, any second-grader who is still not prepared to read by the end of the year will stay in the second grade. If at the end of his third year he has fallen two years behind, he will either 1) get special help in his regular grade, or 2) be transferred to an "opportunity class" for intensive remedial work...