Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Counterfeiting was rampant. Small businesses were ruined by rocketing inflation. Bribery of public officials was commonplace, and police kept dossiers on everyone. In the midst of the chaos, a dictator seized power and restored order. It was part of an all-too-real experiment in government by a seventh-grade class in California...
...event of the day for the eighth-grade students at Ken Caryl Junior High School in suburban Denver is the "Great Boil-Over." Under the rules, contestants are pitted against one another to determine who can boil water fastest ?with the least amount of fuel. The exercise is part of a growing trend in U.S. elementary and high schools: instruction in the basics of energy conservation. The aim is to prepare students for a world where energy is no longer cheap or plentiful. Teachers explain how students' fuel-using habits touch on the larger issues of dwindling supplies...
...students for these opportunities." At suburban Evanston Township High School, an architectural drawing program includes the study of solar heating, wind generators and maximum use of insulation. At a recent science fair at Brooklyn's Roy Mann Intermediate School, there was an impressive array of energy projects. One seventh-grade student, Chris Bonagura, 13, built a working model of a solar-heated home. He was Inspired when he became cold one night on an environmental field trip. Says he: "I thought about heating and solar energy?no wasted coal or oil or garbage like that, you know. It's just...
...message. "Nostalgia," said one, "is for people who ride phony coal burners at Disneyland." (Note for nostalgia freaks: the Crescent no longer goes clickety-clack; the rails are now continuously welded in 1,400-ft. segments from Washington to New Orleans. En route, the train passes through 15,000 grade crossings...
...nation's oldest incorporated independent school, Andover goes from ninth through twelfth grade. Its 683 boys and 405 girls come from 45 states and 14 foreign countries. About 6% of the students are black or Hispanic; there are also students like the coal miner's daughter who was unable to sleep in her dormitory bed because she was used to sleeping on the floor (the school lent her a sleeping...