Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move into March I am forced to once more let out a sigh of perplexity and frustration: yet another Black History Month has passed us by and I am left feeling bothered and unnerved. Ever since my ninth grade of school, the observance of Black History Month has been a problematic issue for me. I never could understand how it was that black history could be boxed into this neat time frame when the lives and experiences of black people have been integral to centuries of the American narrative...
...sixth-grade humanities class at New York City's Mott Hall, the noise level has reached cacophony. It's mostly animated chatter among the students as they put final touches on oral reports they will deliver in a few minutes. But another sound adds to the din: the staccato clicking of keys on computers. In this hard-knocks Washington Heights school, where a substantial number of the students qualify for free lunches, a hardwired revolution is taking shape. All the students in the class work on their own Toshiba laptops, cutting-edge machines bought by the school district last year...
These days laptops, once the accessory of bicoastal businessmen, are right at home next to grade-schoolers' lunch boxes. A program launched by Toshiba and Microsoft that offers software-loaded laptops to schools at discount rates has grown from 52 public and private schools in 1996 to more than 170 this year. The private Cincinnati Country Day School requires all 500 of its students from grades 6 through 12 to carry laptops; the school pays half the cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after...
...When I was 8-years old, in third grade, we had carrier day at my elementary school. Some guy's uncle was a local actor and he came in to talk to us. For the first time it occurred to me that all my goofing around and impressions could actually be used to make a living. I bothered my parents about it for weeks, until they gave in and looked into getting me an agent...
...being able to do seventh grade math quickly means I finally get to win the game, I thought, then yes--I'm a freak...