Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the subsidy only applies to municipal libraries and schools teaching kindergarten through the 12th grade, Harvard telephone users may have to pay the increased charges without benefiting from the subsidy...
...Testing Assessment, the ACT is almost as widely taken as the SAT but considered less prestigious.) Despite the attacks, the percentage of four-year colleges requiring either test has actually increased since 1990, from 77% to 82%. Most admissions officers say the tests can be a useful guard against grade inflation; according to the College Board, 37% of students report getting A's today, up from 28% 10 years...
...pinned on Gen Xers at the start of the decade. The idea was that they were aimless and depressed, but the reality seems to be that they are overprogrammed and extraordinarily stressed. They are the first generation to be scheduled from their earliest play dates; to view school, even grade school, as a ruthless competition; to enter the work force unsure of where they're going but clear enough that the destination is the top. And now they're rebelling in their own way--not in the streets but back to hearth and home...
...Peter Fischli and David Weiss hadn't become artists, they might have become comedians. Or critics. Or seventh-grade science teachers. Thankfully they opted for art, but their charming and often wildly funny Boston exhibition makes one wonder if it was an easy decision...
Alice L. Turkel, a member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), received the most votes. Robin A. Harris, a sixth grade teacher at the Benjamin Bennaken charter-school, upset incumbent Alfred B. Fantini to give the CCA a two-seat majority on the six-member committee. Joseph G. Grassi, David P. Maher, Susana M. Segat and Denise Simmons also won seats on the committee. The results are expected to be made official tomorrow...