Word: grades
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Kindergarten used to be a playground. Then it became a training ground. Now it may become a battleground. In Los Angeles, kindergarten teachers are assigning homework. In Minneapolis, "competency tests" help decide which tots advance to the first grade. A full day of classes has become the rule for all New York City kindergartens. But in neighboring Connecticut, an outcry helped to defeat statewide full-day legislation, and more protests are being heard across the country as pressure grows for tougher early schooling...
...prayer, he calls those who oppose him intolerant. One might argue with equal plausibility that on this issue his opponents are more tolerant: after all, a cardinal principle of toleration is thai Ihe practice of religion should be free and uncoerced, a situation that hardly obtains in the third grade. Many who oppose school prayer support a moment of silence as a serious, denominationally neutral alternative. Is William Rusher, the outspoken conservative publisher of National Review, intolerant of religion because he supports a moment of silence? By questioning the religious, indeed the constitutional, bona fides of his opponents, the President...
Asked by IOP directors to "speak about their passions, " the fellows talked about formative moments that ranged from disappointments, in the fifth grade to triumphs at the age of 60, in general stressing the immediacy and intensity, of the times that first directed them to politics...
Whitley, who has been playing soccer since seventh or eighth grade, has always been a goalkeeper. She said the opportunity to play on select teams in North Carolina and good coaching developed her game...
...School Admissions Council, the organization that administers the LSAT, also prepares students' academic transcripts for evaluation by the admissions office, converting grade point averages to a standard four point scale. Straight A's from Harvard undergraduates are virtually unheard of, Geraghty notes. The average undergraduate GPA at the Law School is 3.5, but courses receive almost as much scrutiny as grades in the admissions process. Geraghty studies the transcripts to weed out the gut-seekers from the achievers, and she says she's familiar with the course offerings at 20 to 30 schools...