Word: grades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...member school board that what the system needed was promotion based on a student's performance, not automatic passing based on age. In the fall of 1973, Greensville announced that twice a year students would have to take a standardized test to determine whether they had mastered their grade's material. Thereby Greensville became one of the first school systems in the country to inaugurate a minimal competency program, which in some ways resembles U.S. school practice of 40 years...
...following June, on the basis of low test scores, 800 students (21% white, 79% black), compared with only 239 the previous year, were ordered to repeat their grades. What is now known as the Greensville experiment was well under way. In Owen's innovative program, students held back because of below-average performance do not sit in their old classrooms while other classmates move ahead. They are assigned to new rooms and teachers, and usually grouped with children of similar ages, while they begin a special remedial course of study that focuses on basic reading, writing and math...
...America -at a time when the shaky world economic recovery cannot absorb all of it. One result: price shaving by most of the big producers. Kuwait, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all offering slight discounts of 100 to 300 off the price (about $13 per bbl.) of their heavy-grade oil, the kind that is refined to heat homes and factories...
...elaborate dogma, the album as a whole seems to be oriented towards the innocuous and forgettable thesis, "Wasn't it fun to be a kid?" Carlin is certainly successful in making people laugh, but there is no catharsis in recalling All Those Great Jokes everybody used to pull in grade school--gags like "the artificial fart under the arm" and the marathon burp. All humor does not derive from pathos. Silliness is also a consideration...
...decide to stick around beyond this week, attendance will be mandatory, since the purpose, letter, spirit and moped of this entire experience is violated if you don't show up regularly. No auditors will be permitted. There will be no hourlies, no papers, and no final. You will be graded telepathically, by computer, utilizing the magnetic strip affixed to the back of your student identification card. There are no curves, there are no section meetings, there is no grade inflation, and the Yanks will win it all in five...