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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's population dropped 27% in the previous decade, from 622,000 to 453,000-the largest percentage decline of any major U.S. city. People are leaving so fast that each year more than 30% of the first-graders in city schools do not return for the second grade. Though St. Louis has filed a federal suit challenging the census count, the city is probably going to lose two state senators, seven state representatives, a Congressman and more federal aid than it can afford. St. Louis has also lost 24,000 jobs since 1973. Vincent Schoemehl Jr., a former...
...told my students that their grades were going to be based on their ability to run up and down the stairs of Tuck Hall as fast as they could, a lot of them would be doing it," muses Dartmouth's Dean West. "They would be saying to each other, 'This is asinine, but if that is the way the game is played, I'll play the game.' I don't know of any business school professor in the country who has ever taught anybody that a short-term profit horizon is the right thing. Business...
Rants have a reputation for butting in, according to a joke that circulated in the second grade in 1968, and evidently the URI Rants are in the habit of preserving...
...information conveyed by a mere grade as to what a student has done well or poorly, and how he or she might go about improving future performance is small and obscure," the report says...
...ARBOR. Mich.--The University of Michigan this week unveiled a new formula for determining which students may take limited enrollment courses in mechanical engineering: Divide each student's grade point average (GPA) by four, multiply by one-sixteenth of his total credit hours, multiply again by the number of terms he has studied at the university, raise to the .585 power, add the student's total number of credit hours divided by 96. subtract one, and multiply...