Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women were selected by a 10-member committee of professors, alumni, and senior members of the honor society. Twenty-four juniors were elligible for the honor on the basis of their grade point averages said Judith A. Kates, president of the national organization's . . .assachusetts chapter...
Soon, however, the U.S.S.R. may have its own generation of computer kids. The Kremlin has decreed that in September computer classes will begin "on a large scale" for the 8 million ninth- and tenth-grade students in the Soviet Union's 60,000 high schools. Said a statement issued by the Politburo: "All- round and profound mastering by young people of computers must become an important factor in speeding up the scientific and technological progress in the country." While computers are widespread in American high schools, most Soviet students have no chance to learn about the machines until college...
Ozment places most of the blame for declining quality on "careerist, grade-grubbing and narrows" students. "A critique has to be made of the present culture of youth," he says...
James remembers when his sixth-grade teacher had a talk with him about wasting time with baseball statistics...
Lucky for us, that sixth-grade teacher didn't stop little William from doing what he does better than anyone else...