Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father, who went to school only through sixth grade, is on disability and began working full-time at 13 doing mostly manual labor. Her mother, who earned a General Equivalency Diploma, processes personal income-tax forms...
...Salt Lake County Sheriff Aaron Kennard yesterday on 15-year-old Justin Allgood, a ninth-grade student who, wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a .357 Magnum revolver, hijacked his school bus yesterday, shot the driver, then led police on a high-speed chase before killing himself...
Summer and her mother were homeless twice, while she was in the fourth and eighth grade. After attending several elementary schools, she insisted on going to one high school for all four years. "I made my mother stay in one place. I told her not to move," says Summer, who attended Quincy High School in nearby Quincy, Mass...
...surprised that Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 is once again the subject of controversy regarding his statements about race and Harvard. Over the years, Mansfield has made many shocking and even offensive assertions, especially about black students. For example, he has blamed grade inflation at Harvard on blacks, accusing his fellow colleagues of being afraid to give African-American undergraduates the low grades they allegedly deserve. And Mansfield's response to President Neil L. Rudenstine's annual report, "Diversity and Learning," has also caused a stir on campus...
...last time I checked, subscriptions to The Socialist Worker weren't booming in Harvard Square. Professor Harvey C. Mansfield '53 was still talking about grade inflation...