Word: grader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of details. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing the work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, the second takes too long...
...TIME footnote about President Eisenhower's cooking and bubbled up in rage like a fondue that has been too close to the fire too long. "It's not true," Chef Lerch cried and fired off a protest to TIME'S editors. In Troy, N.Y. Eighth-Grader Lisa Fitzgerald read our review of Humorist H. Allen Smith's Write Me a Poem, Baby. Lisa, who writes poetry and reviews for the Willard Day School literary magazine Pipes of Pan, was delighted, and she sat right down and wrote to the editors to tell them...
...complaints, there seems to be no quick cure for the habit. By now too many children have apparently come to believe that Government and industry have a sort of duty to get them through school. As one California fifth-grader wrote: "Will you Please send me some pitures of Pennsylvania Because I'am study Pennsylvaina In school. I need pictues of Penn. very bad. So please send me some pictures. If I don't get some picturs I will flop in school...
Double Boon. In Chicago, a first-grader may spend one-third of his time doing regular work, an eighth-grader three-fourths. But from kindergarten to high school, each blind child has an older "buddy" who reads to him when Braille texts are not available and serves as his guide and friend. As the years pass, the blind child becomes more and more independent-and the sighted children must be cautioned against being too protective. Says Ethel May Wright, supervisor of Chicago's program: "The blind children don't want to be different. By the time they...
Once, says Columnist Thompson, a fifth-grader would get a taste of everyone from