Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family had ever attended college. Neither of her parents had received any schooling beyond the sixth grade. But Mayra Rodriguez '88 knew she wanted more...
...between the jobs, paid and unpaid, Rodriguez has found time for academics. "I feel now that it hasn't been too bad," Rodriguez says. "If I get back a grade and it's only a B, I can't be upset because I have done a lot of things...
Harvard Phi Beta Kappa elects 12 students to the society during the junior year and 24 during the fall of the senior year. In May of the senior year it elects a number equivalent to 12 percent of the senior class. Selection is based on grade point average and letters of recommendation from teachers...
...know all about their first-grade foibles,their nicknames in sixth grade and the fights theygot into with their older brothers or sisters. Idon't care how much we think we have changed,those things still matter. They are thicker, theyresonate more than the things you can learn atcollege, where everyone has the chance to reinventthemselves. This is no doubt liberating for many,but it requires a severing with the past thatcannot be cost free...
...decades, too many big-city public schools have degenerated into jungles of incompetence, failed objectives, even violent crime. A million U.S. high schoolers drop out annually, joining a swelling underclass of unemployables. In Los Angeles, only 229 youngsters of 1,918 at one typical school can read up to grade level. In New York City, classroom thugs committed 1,606 assaults on school grounds last year. A showcase failure among the wreckage has been Jersey City, an 86% minority system where only 25.9% of ninth-graders can pass standard proficiency exams...