Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Dr. Junior-Spence asked seventh-grade Stephens why his name was Harvard, he replied, "that's where I'm going to school...
John Gilbert, Gell's high school advisor and French teacher, referred to his former pupil as "quite an amazing yound man," noting that Gell had the highest grade point average in his class--and in the school's history...
...Eventually the Artist consented to answer questions posed on the phone to someone else and then relayed to him. Ali's cause appealed to him, he explained, because of the champ's "truth and compassion," and because it's dedicated to fighting bigotry. "When I was in the fifth grade, I was bused to an all-white school," said the singer. "They made fun of my name and picked fights. I always fought, and I always won." Maybe that's why he changed his name to something no one could pronounce...
...filmmakers in an era dominated by Hollywood. No one made black films for black audiences, so Micheaux did, beginning in 1918; and if his films often showed an actor waiting for him to bark out a stage direction, they satisfied their constituency. Edgar G. Ulmer, the vagabond king of grade-Z films, directed the black musical Moon over Harlem--as well as pictures in Yiddish and Ukrainian--all in the same year (1939). These guys were tireless: from 1935 to 1945, hack-of-hacks Sam Newfield directed an impossible 150 quickie movies, including the grindhouse curio The Terror of Tiny...
...giving the nod at last to teacher peer reviews. In place for more than 10 years in some Ohio cities not represented by America's largest teacher's union, peer reviews allow teachers in good standing to work with all new teachers and with tenured teachers not making the grade, recommending dismissals. The NEA has long opposed the reviews for billing teachers as managers, but faced with several state legislatures itching to throw out tenure laws and fire lousy teachers at will, the union is now ready to offer up the reviews as a possible compromise. A vote is expected...