Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city's board of education has promised help but has been slow to deliver it, giving rise to charges that the central bureaucracy is not committed to change. "The concept is real good, but they have set us up to fail," says Leroy Johnson, whose daughter is a ninth-grader at Morgan Park High School...
...person, a soundly trained mind in a soundly trained body, tempering ambition with recreation, mingling contemplation and combat. But then the Greeks didn't have endorsement contracts. It is all well and good to talk about waiting until one's eligibility -- uh, education -- is completed, but when an eighth-grader can sign sponsorship deals worth potentially $1 million a year, what's the real point of further schooling? It might provide some cultural grounding and social polish, but the purpose is plainly not to qualify for a well-paying...
These days, however, children's museums have been dusted off, jazzed up and wired for action. Young visitors are increasingly encouraged to explore a host of interactive exhibits. Raised on mornings with Big Bird and vacations at Disney World, today's kids are sophisticated "infotainment" consumers. Birmingham sixth-grader Tracy Brunson speaks for many of her peers when she says, "Walking and looking is boring. Touching is funner...
...Haven, Conn. Encouraged by the program's success (at week's end 480 of the school's 800 students were wearing the new outfits), members of the advisory council may make uniforms mandatory in September. "Some of the girls say I'm a nerd," said smiling fifth-grader LaDonna Wright, proudly wearing her jumper and blouse, "but I say, 'I'm a radical dudette...
Since then we have reprinted in entirety both the original piece and the grader's response as a public service to all of our readers. And we wish you all luck as you prepare to open your blue books in the coming weeks...