Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provide quality foreign-language (or Latin) instruction not only to give seniors a chance for acceptance at first-rate liberal arts institutions, but to enable them to do well enough in their first year and after to have a fair shot at merit-based financial aid (the higher the grade average, the more scholarship and the less loan and part-time-job requirement). Since early 1960s undergraduates had begun to think of spending a term or so abroad, public schools focused on more than learning to read a foreign language. They emphasized ALM, audio-lingual method...
Certainly I listened to Die Deutsche Welle, the German Waves, night after night struggling to understand not just the news, but poetry and folksong. But I found the BBC and Radio Moscow, in time Radio Netherlands and the static-cracked voices of new African nations, and by ninth grade I knew that other countries not only had a different slant on the news, they had different news altogether, some aimed to listeners in their former colonies and to emigrants in South America or East Africa, but most aimed at anyone who cared to caress the fine-tuning dial...
...cost to our children and to our country is extremely high. It is estimated that children will see 100,000 acts of violence on television before they enter the seventh grade. According to Metropolitan Life's national survey of rural, urban, and suburban junior high school students, 36% believe their schools do only a fair or poor job of providing a safe environment in the school building. The same survey found that 16% of students reported being the victim of a violent incident that took place in or around their school. According to the Centers for Disease Control, an African...
Obiora I. "Bo" Menkiti '99, who was taught by his mother at home until ninth grade, said he supports education in the home, but he said he had little choice in his education decision...
Once they arrive at Harvard, these students either devote themselves to maintaining the shining grade point average they cultivated in high school or throw themselves passionately into an extracurricular activity they hope will prepare them for their careers or simply look good on their resumes...