Word: scholasticism
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Council for Excellence. "In some fashion," said Rickover, "we must devise a way to introduce uniform standards into American education. It would be best to set up a private agency, a Council of Scholars, financed by our colleges and universities as a joint undertaking-or perhaps by Foundations. This council...
In a documented survey of the reasons for declining admission, candidates cited factors ranging from long traveling distances to stiff scholastic requirements. Despite an acceptance rate of 70 per cent, highest among comparable colleges in the east, 426 men declined admission.
Kolakowski has been a Communist since he was 18, won scholastic fame for the fervor of his pro-Stalinist views. But even before the Soviet 20th Party Congress, Kolakowski had established himself as the leader of the group of passionate dissenters now known as the enragés ("the enraged...
But the rigid conformity to scholarship goes back further than the recommendations for tenure. It is the teaching fellows, usually second or third-year graduate students, who have the greatest contact with the undergraduate, and who are at the same time subject to the greatest academic-scholastic pressures. When their...
One defense for grades upholds their validity. Dean Leighton says, "You must have some measure of academic performance." He believes that grades are quality of SAT prediction, in terms of a perfectly suitable measure, pointing to grade curves which correlate with scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests. But of course all...