Word: flunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says it is very difficult to flunk out, despite the competition and ranking system, which grades on a forced curve...
WASHINGTON: They've handed in their homework, now it's just a question of waiting for the grades ? and one of them is definitely going to flunk. Yes, despite the holiday, Microsoft and the Justice Department were working up to the last minute Monday on the "ten pages or less" summaries mandated by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who is seeking some simple perspectives in what has become an increasingly complex contempt hearing...
...with 29 credits needed for graduation--seven more than the state norm. Before this year Rio Rancho's students attended other area high schools, says principal Katy Harvey, "and it was horrifying to look at transcripts full of credits like ceramics and basketball theory. They'd go to college, flunk out and find themselves without job skills." Rio Rancho tailors core subjects to students' interests: a humanities course in the business-and-technology academy examines the history of the oil industry; fine-arts-academy students look at the Nazi plundering of paintings. Consistent with the trend known as "integrated curriculum...
...unfair to deny graduation to a kid who has passed his or her courses, it's also unfair to let a student graduate who can't read or do math. "You've got to start sometime saying to kids that the tests of the real world are going to flunk you anyway," says E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of Cultural Literacy. "Tough love is the right kind of fairness. And you have to change the system with shock treatment at some point...
...this maligned letter is excluded from the grading system at most schools. But Harvard, in her infinite sensitivity, has brought back the E. She's also exiled F, E's evil sister, from the report card. So when people say that you can't flunk at Harvard, that's what they mean. If you're a conscientious comper, not only will you get comped by your editor, but your report card will also be sprinkled with magnanimous...