Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grade inflation makes Bush's marks appear worse than they would have seemed in 1968. An 80 average was good enough to get on the Dean's List then, and an 85 was considered a real feat...
...Texan Christopher Beamon, 13, spent five days in juvenile detention for writing a horror story for his seventh-grade English class about killing his classmates. He got extra credit for the assignment...
...that he's incurious, proudly anti-intellectual. Yet he is applying for a new and very demanding job--and it was hard for Bush to attack this as a media ambush when his education philosophy hinges on testing what students know before allowing them to advance to the next grade...
...Average grade Bush received in political science back at Yale...
Ethel B. Branch '01, whose mother is Navajo and whose father is part Spanish-Mexican, part Basque and part French, went to an all Native-American grade school in Arizona...