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Giamatti questions experiments in unmarked or pass-fail courses that leave the best students unsure of where they stand. "Students are owed a sense that the faculty knows what is important," he says, which means "setting reasonable demands and holding to them." He wants a more structured curriculum, with more required and fewer optional courses. Long before he gave any thought to being Yale's president, he was in favor of curtailing many of the new seminars taught by outside "experts," including one on the role of sports in contemporary American society given by Howard Cosell...
...class professionals, was in an innovative mood. It approved when Merlin Ludwig, then superintendent of schools, granted West's 1,040 students a nonvoting chair on the board of education in 1970. Ludwig also introduced a more flexible curriculum. Grades were abolished at the elementary-school level, and a pass-fail option was installed at West. As a final gesture, Ludwig declared a new motto for his school district: "Iowa City Puts the Student First." In short, West in many ways came to resemble a college more than a high school...
...said some changes may occur as a result of the responses, citing the pass-fail option as an example of a change initiated by student opinion...
Another way to take a course that promises to be interesting, but not very easy, is to take it pass-fail. This could explain the popularity of the two Fine Arts courses on the list, Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art," and Fine Arts 171r, "European and American Art of the Last 100 Years...
Ninety-seven of 252 students in Fine Arts 171r and 149 of 390 in Fine Arts 13 have pass-fail status...