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Opportunity with Responsibility. In framing a new philosophy of education, the U.S. should not rely primarily on liberal arts professors, few of whom "have ever faced the problem of providing a proper education for a fourth-grader with an IQ of 80." Nor should the nation lean on the educationists, for most of them are not the sort of educational philosophers that are needed. Just where such philosophers would come from no one can say, but, says Woodring, the people themselves "have developed their own unique view of the role of the schools." Though never stated in any complete...
Bryan Hamric, II, is a sixth-grader at the St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas. Last week Bryan's long, long thoughts on spring (which earned him a B plus) were carried by the Dallas Morning News...
Behind the charge against Melvin Bentley Ellis, 45, and his wife Frances, 37, looms a bitterly felt religious conflict: the Ellises are Jewish and Hildy McCoy, the freckled, honey-blonde first-grader they adopted as a ten-day-old baby six years ago, was born of an unmarried Roman Catholic mother...
Much more typical is the question that asks for a discussion of a small part of a course, covered by a lecture or two and perhaps a chapter in the reading. These demand no more than memory, even for the strictest grader, although the student who had thought about the problem or done some extra work might get an A or even an A+ on a rare exam...
Another Economics section man said that it was "unavoidable" that students are penalized for poor writing, "no matter how fair the grader tries...