Word: scholasticism
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Maller proposed a change in the scholastic calendar to relieve the pressure. Such a change would eliminate the current policyof scheduling the reading and examination periods after Christmas recess, Maller said.
> In 1957, the average verbal score on the national Scholastic Aptitude Tests was 473 (on a scale from 200 to 800). In 1973, the average was down 33 points, to 440.
When Galbraith was on campus recently, his colleagues gave him a portable electric typewriter as a retirement present. Last week he received another tribute from the Harvard and Radcliffe senior classes, which chose him as their Class Day faculty speaker. Said Class Marshal Harden Wiedemann: "He is respected because of...
The strongest evidence for the decline in classroom learning comes from the annual Scholastic Aptitude Tests, which most college admissions offices use to judge applicants. SAT scores have been falling every year since 1962, and the new figures-based on last year's tests taken by 1 million high...
More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value...