Word: grades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was widespread doubt in both the Administration and the Congress that Jordan was the right man for the job. One of his first acts was hardly encouraging. He distributed stacks of 30-question evaluation forms to Cabinet members, with instructions that they grade their high-ranking subordinates according to ability, performance and loyalty to the Administration. The forms were to be returned to him on Friday, so that he could begin deciding who at the sub-Cabinet level should be ousted...
...member constabulary force, it keeps busy fighting the Muslim rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front in the southern Philippines, and the Maoist-led New People's Army mainly in Luzon and the Visayan Islands. In part because of the country's corrupt leadership, Washington analysts grade the Filipino performance and prospects a dismal Cminus...
...Berrien, 17, one of ten children of Ezell, a roofer, and Mildred, an organist at the nearby New Progress Missionary Baptist Church. Gary plays the organ for pay on Sunday at three churches in the neighborhood, but he has not found a full-time job since completing the twelfth grade at Hillsborough High School. He wanted to join the Army but decided against it when a recruiter asked for his high school diploma. Gary had to tell him he did not have a diploma because he had failed to pass the Florida functional literacy test, which this year became...
Gary's mathematics teacher in the ninth grade, Bobby Crihfield, recalls that Gary was "very quiet, a typical poor student who is passed along from grade to grade." Unaware of Gary's musical ability or his skill in carpentry and woodcarving, Crihfield says he has seen many such students who "reach a plateau once they get to the seventh grade, and they just can't learn any more. I think it's just unfair to try to make them graduate from high school...
...slow in learning, then I think you should hold him back. Even my little ones-if I don't discipline them early, then I'm going to have problems later. Have they ever asked themselves how a teacher could give a student a passing grade for each of the years he went to school, and then he gets to the eleventh grade and they tell him he's functionally illiterate because he can't pass this test...