Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...County, Calif., is one of four children born to an air-conditioner retailer and his wife. "I was a tomboy," she says, "always beating somebody up. The comments on my report card said that I needed to work on my mouth -- I talked way too much. Then, in fourth grade, boys started to find me attractive, so I put away my boxing gloves." At school Michelle acted up; at home she acted out. "I'd sing into the garden hose and pretend I was Elvis," she recalls. "Whenever I'd try to con my mother, she'd say, 'What...
What is to become of the third-grade girl who wrote in her journal, "I'll have my own children someday, I'll be sure to do this and that. Then I'll kill myself."? Another entry: "The best thing about a pet is that it dies." And "I would not like to have the mother I have now. She don't love...
Students in nearly three-quarters of the New Orleans elementary schools, including Frantz, rank below the 50th percentile on national reading tests. Without mastering the ability to read, kids like Bianca will find it impossible to realize their dreams. Bianca, who reads a bit above her grade ; level, keeps what she calls a "literature book" at Leonard's house. Her grandmother gave it to her. She reads it by herself. "I keep it in the back room," she says. "It has lots of stories in it by different authors...
...Over the past three years, LaVaun Dennett, Montlake's principal, reorganized the school schedule so that the average class size could be reduced from 28 to 20 without adding a single faculty member. More time is now spent on reading and math, which kids do according to ability, not grade. Katie's skills in these subjects are far beyond the third-grade level, so she takes those classes with older children...
...come flashing out of the television set and lodge in minds too young to understand them. In New York City a five-year-old and his friend argue about 1) whether there is a Santa Claus and 2) what Liberace died of. In New Orleans a boy in first grade shaves chalk and passes it around the classroom, pretending it is cocaine...