Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the professors' abilities as teachers, some students say they are drawn to these scholars' courses because of their relatively light workloads. For example, Fleming's courses commonly feature a midterm which does not count unless it boosts one's final grade. Fleming justifies his policy, saying he views the midterm as a "learning exercise...
...subject: the Declaration of Independence. The scene: a seventh-grade history classroom at Caddo Middle Magnet School in Shreveport, La. The teacher: a substitute who wrote his name, "Mr. Bennett," in big letters on the blackboard. His teaching method: Socratic...
...sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love, A Way of Life, as well as such popular Judy Blume novels for teenagers as Forever and Deenie. In Buffalo, the Protestant right is allied with conservative Catholics in opposing the so-called Epic program in area grade schools. This parent-and- teacher guidance course is aimed at stemming alcoholism, child abuse and teen pregnancy, but foes say it probes too deeply into the privacy of children and teaches youngsters that there are no absolute rights and wrongs. In one Buffalo suburb, Epic has already been dropped...
...know is that I didn't do it again. I didn't repeat my academic stardom either of the next two years, and I doubt I will this year. Sophomore and junior years have been terrific. I'm much happier getting average grades, going out a normal amount of times, and spending a lot of time talking and doing things with friends. It's important to learn a lot from your classes but also to learn from your friends and extracurriculars. In short, I love Harvard now. I'm happy here. Granted, it took awhile, but parents say freshman year...
...drink. Since I had never been drunk before, everyone wanted to get me trashed: But I hadn't done too much, so they really had to dig deep to find things I had done that no one else had. Someone said they'd never gotten the highest grade in a course at Harvard. I drank. Someone said they hadn't studied on a Friday night. I guzzled again. I kept telling them I wanted to leave, but they said "sit, stay." So I did. It was fun. I really wish I had left, because the game became a bit vindictive...