Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-07
NEW WRINKLES" THIS
YEAR AT HIGH SCHOOL
Improved Methods of Grading,
Checking and Studying, All
Make a Better Student.

Among the innovtions. which the
year and the new high school has
brought forth, none will interest the
student more than the new grading
system used this year for the first
time.
A credit premium IS 20 ne given
for superior work an negative credit
VIII be charged up 20 the hoy or girl
who falls below rhe danger mark
the letter "G" which. signifies good.
For Instance, the student who regist-
ers t. numerical equivalent being
20 TO 100 per cent? will lie .yiven the
full credit value. OF the course in
urits and two tenths extra for hle
diligence and brilliancy. Tor an "E
minus he will receive n bones or
one tenth: for co. the same, and for
20 minus" he will receive "a straight
100 per cent and no more. Then he
low this line, at the ~" whose
numerical equivalent is So to 80 per
cent, the student receives only 50
per cent of the full credit vaiua. Re
low 60 he. OF course. gets nothing at
all. because that number registers n
complete failure.
Has Scientific Basis.
This system has been worked out
by some of the most noted pSychola-
pists in the country and is said 10
have q genunlnely scientific basis for
Its mere or less arbitrary rules.
Another innovation Ia that students
in advanced classes. who shall take
subjects two years in 6rrenrs. shall
he counted toward graduation ut the
rate OF 0.2 unit less credit than the
grade value earned Taken three
wears In arrears of ones class they
shall be counted toward graduation
at one-half the grade value earned
Thus a fourth-year student taS,ng
freshman subject shall receive only
so per cent OF the credit which would
have been his IL the had chosen this
subject in his first year. Tho object
OF this LEGISLATION is. of course. to do
away with upper classmen choosing
underclass work In search Of snaps.
1 The sixty-m.nute period, divided
into thirty minutes for supervised
study and thirty minutes for recita-
year.
Is Successful.
"lt is being tried out with great
success in many schools SAIL prin-
cipal Tubhs, ''and it bas been shown
that where used large decrease in
the number of failures have been
noted. Students coming from the
grade schools into the freer atmos-
phere of the high school oftenimes
10 not know how to use this freedom
properly and the results are jisas-
trous
Ther again. IN city like Tilsa,
whore living conC'tions are congested,
more frequently than not the student
does not have n place ut home whore
he can study advantageously, and
while u is not the proyiuce of this
supervised study TO doaway with home
work entirely. II will very adequately
supplement It,"
+ c. Unverterth. assistant rrin-
ciple, ran across concrete example
OF the actual material benefits which
will accrue to Tulsa because of her
progressiveness In erecting buildings
like tho new high school building. A
man prominent In the oil fields. who
heretofore refused 20 take his grow
Ing children out of the schools OF
Pennsylvania and move his family to
Tulsa, met MIR. Cnverferth In the cor
ridor Of the beautiful building and
after asking a great many questions,
stated that he intended to bring them
on here for this years school work,
that upon looking over the building