Word: pass-fail
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...settle down to a major and stick with it through graduate school, has always stifled such experimentation. Desire to do well on generals and impress one's department begins early; students over-prepare within their concentrations. Courses of study are planned to satisfy Boards of Tutors, not intellectual curiosity. Pass-fail grading offers a way out of this deadly business...
Caltech no longer grades its freshmen at all; they either pass or fail their courses. Princeton lets its undergraduates select four courses on a pass-fail basis, as a result has engineers taking art courses. Beloit lets all students ignore their two lowest grades...
...language laboratories." electronic playback units that let students compare their pronunciation with native voices. Next step: conducting science, history or English literature classes in a foreign language. ¶ Elementary schools are changing radically from the "egg crate" method of locking all students by age in one grade under a pass-fail system. The new method: the "ungraded school," which usually means eliminating grades one, two and three (as in Marblehead, Mass.) and using ability grouping by subject. In Torranee, Calif., fourth, fifth and sixth graders are being lumped together in a "multigrade" school so that children of different ages...