Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a strong streak of academic conservatism in her as well. "Grading is the conservatism in her as well. "Grading is the toughest question, and I've consistently resolved it over the years in the direction of being more and more hard-assed," she says. "I find students here are the most grade conscious people I have ever met in my life, so I can either make it a real evaluation or a popularity contest," she explains...
...really amazed at how many kids, who I truly believe want to learn, are stifled by the fact that there's a grade that has to come up at the end," she adds. "I don't want to paint a rosy picture of myself, though," she laughs. "I'm an overachiever, and if I got a C in college I would have had a heart attack. B's were hard to swallow, and I didn't get many. But the teachers who didn't give me an A, and who talked with me, I learned from...
...United Methodist Church, chooses Marathon Man on the assumption, he says, that this nasty little spy thriller is about running. The Rev. Cain's daughter Rachel, 8, is a small celebrity in Claypool. Year before last, as part of a book-reading contest in the first grade, she was able to dash through 150 volumes, including Uncle Wiggily and The Yearling. Now she picks Laura Wilder's These Happy Golden Years...
From an informant, U.S. Customs Service officials had learned that as much as four tons of high-grade Colombian marijuana was due to arrive that night aboard the 48-ft. trimaran Two-Too Much and would be sent ashore in smaller boats. Elaborate plans were laid to catch the smugglers in the act. Planes of the Customs Service were to circle overhead, shining powerful spotlights on the scene below. Patrol boats would be cruising near each of the three suspected drug transfer sites. Hidden on shore would be heavily armed local, state and federal officers...
...Miguel, 8, a student at the 91% Mexican American Briscoe Elementary School on Houston's sweltering east side, such easy leaps from language to language are an everyday matter. In his bilingual third-grade class, Miguel takes science, math and language arts in both English and Spanish, his native tongue. Typically, a one-hour science lesson is taught one day in English. The next day the teacher covers the same material, but in Spanish. Ideally, after two or three years of this bilingual barrage, Miguel will master enough English to do all his classwork in that language...