Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven, an unrelenting series of academic challenges enlivened by warm friendships with students and teachers. I didn't think I had swallowed the social caste propaganda--I am proud of my Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence is not confined to prep schools. I had always hated the socialite, tennis-playing atmosphere of my suburban town, and I fled to prep school as a more, not less, diverse place...
...migrant Head Start graduates hold their own academically through the second grade, but then they fall behind, teachers say, unable to master English and buffeted by their turbulent cross-country lives. "Quite honestly, most of the older migrant children are lost when they come here," says Walter Brey, principal of the Palmyra Elementary School, where older migrants attend school while in Wisconsin. But for their younger brothers and sisters, the grounding for education may be the only means of breaking the cycle of wandering and deprivation. Says Migrant Maria Covarabuis, a mother of five: "I want for my children...
...Haven Federal District Court Judge Ellen B. Burns ruled, after examining the evidence, that no sexual proposition was made, that Price's course grade was not affected by anything other than an evaluation of her academic performance, and that the manner in which Yale dealt with the complaint, while ad hoc, was appropriate. William Doyle, attorney for Yale University, said yesterday...
...Florida's mandatory literacy test was announced in 1977, while this year's seniors were sophomores. Carr said students should have been told that graduation depended on functional literacy skills "at the time of instruction," well before their sophomore year. Florida, he ordered, could require a passing grade on the test beginning in the 1982-83 school year...
...coach discovered her throwing a ball against a building. Besides baseball, her interests include basketball, music, bike riding and the Pittsburgh Pirates (her idol: Outfielder Dave Parker, who strong-armed the National League's 7-6 win in Seattle). Crystal, a B student, will enter the sixth grade this fall. But right now she's concentrating on leading the Phillies into the league playoffs and pursuing what used to be only a little boy's dream: to be a major league baseball player...