Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After three years of pre-med with a consistent 4.0 grade-point average, I abandoned the race for medical school. I knew it was not worth it when I did not have time to play with my dog any more. I have never regretted my decision...
...bilingual programs is that they often employ teachers who are less than competent in either English or Spanish, or in, the specific subjects they teach. In a 1976 test of 136 teachers and aides in bilingual programs in New Mexico, only 13 could read and write Spanish at third-grade level. Says former Boston School Superintendent Robert Wood: "Many bilingual teachers do not have a command of English, and after three years of instruction under them, children also emerge without a command of English." Another complicating factor is the inability of researchers to determine whether the problems of Hispanic students...
...last week, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 51, could not have been more in evidence if he were running for President-or head of the P.T.A. He returned to his alma mater, the Fessenden School in West Newton, Mass., where his youngest son, Patrick, 15, was graduating from the ninth grade. Next came Brown University for the graduation of Nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., 22. But it was last week's graduation of Daughter Kara, 23, from Tufts University that created an unusual family portrait. Kennedy and his wife Joan, 46, who filed for divorce last December, got together with...
Although no students in either program would speak on the record fearing reprisals from the South African government, results of a private national conference of SAEP students earlier this year revealed a wide variety of viewpoints toward American higher education. Along with complaints that Americans are too grade-conscious and that there is a surprising amount of racism in the U.S. the students also found that the college dorms are often too noisy to concentrate and the American accents of professors are sometimes difficult to understand...
...after the faculty passed a resolution allowing professors to grade class room participation in many clases, 500 law students demonstrate outside Langdell Hall in protest, charging that the new policy was enacted without proper student input. About half of the crowd then mobs the dean's office and confronts the dean, demanding that he reconvene the faculty for an open meeting...