Word: grade
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Speaking to the New Jersey School Superintendents Association, Conant suggested four years of one foreign language, with a possible three years of a second for talented high school students. The increased language requirement would replace 12th grade mathematics and science...
...When that fails and, for example, a grade school is integrated, then state funds are cut off from all grade schools in that district. If a high school is involved, the cutoff applies to all high schools in the district. At the same time, state tuition grants will be given to white children for private schools...
Young Edmund, eldest of four children, picked up pocket money carrying the San Francisco Call and Chronicle, was a better-than-average student, starred in extracurricular activities. "I have always wanted to be a leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High...
...request from the Colombian government to the well-endowed ($500 million) Rockefeller Foundation, headquartered in Manhattan: would it help find "ways to provide the people of Colombia with more and better food as economically as possible?" The foundation sent in experts, the Colombian government handed over top-grade land and the search started. At first Tibaitata concentrated on wheat and corn, has since branched into potatoes, beans, forage crops, barley, farm administration, pathology, entomology, animal husbandry...
...together an album of educational horrors. Examples: a woman who for years has taught high school English in Pennsylvania had only 18 semester hours of English in college, got mournful Ds in all the courses; a teacher, major in physical education and science, took over an eighth-grade English class in an Ohio school, although she could not spell such a word as acknowledgment. "It is a frightening fact,"' Tuttle says, "that many English teachers do not write or speak as well as their more able students...