Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members tentatively approved a proposal put forth by Verba that would establish a student's overall grade point average as the key honors requirement in addition to departmental recommendations...
Four--Carrillo, Landry, Greeley, and Field--of the five freshmen have similar backgrounds. This quartet started playing soccer in the sixth grade in competitive Massachusetts town leagues and continued to compete for as many as nine months of the year in high school, often in three different leagues. Carrillo and Greeley (who played together for two years at Wellesley High) and Field earned Boston Globe All-Scholastic honors during their high school careers...
Attles explains that "a third grader in one school might read at merely a third grade level, but in other schools the average third-grader is at a fifth or sixth grade level." Such a difference in reading scores indicates where resources that the school system has should be channelled, Attles believes...
...eleven, he slept in the same bed with "Satnin'," his baby-talk name for the mother he stroked and petted until her death. Gladys did not let the boy play out of her sight until he was 15 and still walked him to school in ninth grade. At 16, Elvis transformed his paralyzing shyness into a bizarre statement: greased locks, pegged pants, mascara and eye shadow. Later he would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart attack...
...proposal called for a straight grade-point-average requirement across all grades for "Latin" honors such as magna and summa, and another suggested leaving only summa and "cum laude in general studies" as honors with college-wide requirements. The system now requires all honors candidates to both fulfill their particular departmental requirements and achieve grade averages set by the College in areas of "distribution" outside their area of concentration...