Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the odds of race and circumstance stacked against him, Ronald McNair attended segregated schools in Lake City, S.C. (current pop. 5,636), and itched to explore a world beyond and above his own. Irene Jones, his first- grade teacher, remembered him as a bright loner who, on the playground, would "lie flat on his back, stare up at the sky and just smile." That was Sputnik time, when America was racing to catch up to the Soviets. Later it would rely on the help of seven crew-cut white pilots, extraordinary role models for a rural Southern black youth...
...point, a small amount of bomb-grade fuel was stolen from the facility and then discovered a few weeks later on a graduate student's desk, Hirsch said. The thief was never found...
...Reading Game first plunged into multi-outlet tutoring in 1970, beginning with eleven centers in California and expanding to 70 in six states. The company has served a principal diet of reading for kindergarten through twelfth grade, both remedial for slow learners and enrichment for fast-track youngsters. Its fee: $20-$25 an hour...
...store in suburban Portland in 1979. Mainly through aggressive franchising, it quickly surpassed Reading Game in size, and now has 211 franchised centers and nine company-owned facilities in 39 states. At an average cost of $25 an hour, Sylvan provides help primarily in reading and math at all grade levels...
...quaint, residential-style Huntington center in River Edge, N.J., Eric Strovinsky, 9, seems very much O.K. today. On the verge last spring of being held back in second grade, Eric has been coming twice a week for 90-minute sessions in math and phonics since August. "He just wasn't keeping up in class," says his mother Donna. Now, however, his grades have climbed from Cs to Bs, and, says Donna proudly, "he gets his homework done. He has the discipline to do it by himself...