Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education law also tightens eligibility for federal loan and grant programs by requiring a means test for all students, requiring students to maintain a grade point average "consistent with their school's graduation requirements," and making it more difficult for students to claim financial independence from their parents. These provisions will remove some students from the aid rolls; however, for those who remain the level of aid available will increase, with cumulative guaranteed loan ceilings rising 40 percent and a small increase in the Pell Grant ceiling. Taken together, the changes in the new law--and the unchanged level...
...LITTLE SISTER just entered the eighth grade at La Colina Junior High in Santa Barbara, California. Maybe it's the proximity of the Reagan ranch, or maybe it's just the beatific sunshine, but Santa Barbarans must be more inclined than the average to be content with the status...
...know I went to school back in the sensitive, touchy-feely Seventies, when America was weak and terrorists pushed us around and our president let us call him by a nickname. I even called my fifth-grade teacher "Marty." But I appreciated assignments that taught "critical thinking" along with "values." That was when our teacher didn't tell us what he thought about the Wednesday Afterschool Special until after we'd all discussed cheating at sports, a friend dying, exploding Ford Pintos or alternative energy sources...
...street brawl. When he was twelve the family moved to Brownsville, near East New York, the grim neighborhood whose mean streets gave birth to Murder, Inc. The young Gotti got involved with local gangs and, though he was a clever student, was suspended from school in the eighth grade. He never went back. The streets became his sole education...
...after a hard day of defending the galaxy? Why, he just pops into his custom-made $125,000 hyperbaric chamber, of course. Jackson's spaced-out method of getting his beauty rest came to light in a photograph of the Gloved One looking like the star of a B-grade sci-fi flick. Jackson got interested in the idea after he was hospitalized for burns two years ago and learned that hyperbaric chambers could speed up the healing of damaged tissue by enabling a patient to breathe oxygen for an hour or two under double the barometric pressure...