Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even less control over: the quality of the high school curriculum. A student at a mediocre high school may have little chance of scoring well on the verbal SAT, but is he really any more likely to ace the Chem Achievement? Ironically, the fact that Achievements predict freshman grade point averages better than SATs do reflects this very imbalance. Obviously the best-prepared high school seniors will start out with the highest grades, but, as the admissions office constantly points out, there are more important goals than assembling a class that will get straight A's. And given the tests...
Collins also said that the 21 percent who showed some form of bulimic behavior had no measurable differences in grade point average, leadership, and extracurricular and sports involvement from other students...
...look for it to last much longer," Steinkuhler sighs) is more than farfetched. When the All-America teams are announced, Burr will become the smallest town to have produced an All-America. It is a place without a policeman, or a need for one. From kindergarten through eighth grade, Steinkuhler attended country school in the company of three classmates, one of them a girl. "We had to round up everybody in town to play any sort of sport," he says. "We drank a lot of pop in Burr and mowed a lot of lawns...
Tills decisions stems from the recent media interest in the law School following the boyeoll of a civil rights class by minority student in January and the student protests in May over the decision to grade classroom participation...
...South Korea's Demilitarized Zone. They were entertained at a tea ceremony and a yabusame exhibition of mounted archery by riders arrayed in samurai costume. The President essayed a line in the Japanese language during a speech to the Tokyo Diet; First Lady Nancy Reagan visited a Japanese grade school and delighted the youngsters by scrawling the Japanese character for "friend...