Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lance family later moved to Calhoun, Ga. (pop. 5,000), 65 miles to the southwest, where one of his sixth-grade classmates was LaBelle David, granddaughter of the president of the Calhoun First National Bank. LaBelle and Bert were married when they were both 19. In 1951, just before graduation, Bert had to drop out of the University of Georgia to find a job. The first of his four sons was on his way. Lance never did get a degree; he never needed...
...first day of school last week, handicapped children were busily working away in Teacher Barbara Fagone's first-grade classroom. Kimberly, 8, a good-humored black girl, suffers from severe seizures and motion impairment...
Most of them are still being taught in separate classrooms. In Boston, though, Charlie Flynn and Mary O'Brien, special education consultants, have put 20 seriously handicapped students from kindergarten through third grade into regular city classrooms-at no substantial increase in expense, they argue, over that of educating normal children. All but a few attend the handsome William M. Trotter School in Roxbury, a school with a large staff that is even equipped with an elevator to transport children in wheelchairs...
...Grade inflation, coupled with grade-to-grade promotion that is viewed as "an entitlement rather than something to be earned...
...Half the homework of former days, and less demanding textbooks with more pictures and wider margins. The panel found that eleventh-grade textbooks are now at a ninth-to tenth-grade level...