Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "One hundred years ago we had 12 grades in a single-room schoolhouse and children who could read the classics. Today we have only a 19% literacy rate through the eighth grade...
...silver and blue hanging earrings sparkled as she moved her head while meditating on the imagined future of her third-grade clients...
Currently, the minimum standards at the College require students to earn at least one satisfactory (C- or better) grade and not fail more than one class per semester to avoid being asked to withdraw. To avoid being placed on probation, students must pass all their classes and receive not more than one D in any term. These standards seem especially low. A modest raise in these requirements will not place too great of an academic burden on most students...
...adds that the psychological effects of the work on both parties are as important as any statistical data (like grade reports from a tutoring program) that shows the success of public service...
Dole took the bait, using the first question in San Diego, a Can't We All Get Along-type inquiry from a grade school teacher, to bring up the FBI files and Whitewater pardons. This was so promising that an audible sigh of relief went up in the press room. Sadly, however, the panel was made up of those real people we hear so much about, and real people apparently don't take their lead from the media. They were still looking for the beef, and didn't know the new spin was, "Where's the mud?" Like jurors...