Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just another day in the spring of seventh grade. My parents were still at work, so I asked Grandma to drive me across town to play basketball with a couple friends. She was retired and had lived in our house my entire life. Even though she was 74, she set down her needlepoint, grabbed her keys and began shuffling towards...
According to Engell, Brown is the only school among the Ivies that has a more relaxed language requirement policy than Harvard. Harvard's only requirement is that students who take a year of elementary-level language classes receive a passing grade...
Kane was nominated by his sophomore tutorial student, Amit Tiwari '97, who praised him for making tutorial a "free, open forum for ideas" by eliminating participation as part of the grade...
...sergeant at another recruiting station repeatedly harassed a 16-year-old high school freshman. At one point, the investigator concluded, he "grabbed" her and made her so upset she missed a quarter of her classes, contributing to a failing grade in algebra. "The Army image is now tainted in one of the more productive schools," said the investigator. "It could take years for the damage to disappear...
...other's mom) fall for each other too. Revoyr's great accomplishment is that her story is never strained. It beats with the pulse of life and ends with a strong, heart-churning rumination on love and longing. Apart from a silly subplot involving a grade-inflation scandal, this is a smooth, insightful read. American writers dealing with race relations tend to focus on black-white or Asian-white situations; Revoyr has the imagination to depict racial issues in which whites are not the reference point...