Word: grades
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...home in the Westlawn neighborhood is comfortable, but the $860 monthly mortgage payments and $300 a month owed on the family's 1992 Firebird eat up about a third of their earnings. The couple would like to keep Adrian in the Roman Catholic school system but cannot because first-grade tuition would be $2,500 a year. After attending a Catholic kindergarten, Adrian is a first-grader in a public school that his father says is "not the kind of environment anyone would want for their kids." Rita's parents now baby-sit for Clarissa while her mother works...
Best Friends started on a shoestring and a smile in a bedroom of Bennett's Chevy Chase, Maryland, home nine years ago, and now operates in 29 public schools nationwide. Beginning in sixth grade, the Friends curriculum pounds into girls--through one-on-one sessions with mentors, dance classes, outings to the theater and an awards lunch with speakers (General Powell in June)--that a happy life is more likely for those who put off sex. "Best Friends works because we have fun," says Bennett. "We glamourize abstinence as much as the culture glamourizes sex." Of the 600 Washington girls...
...have said before that graduate students are students, and GESO has no right to unionize. But GESO only represents about 25 percent of Yale's graduate students, and, by their own count, less than half that number participated in the grade strike. Regardless, GESO was denied official status as a union by the National Labor Relations Board. Even if GESO could truly be called an employees' organization, these figures would hardly convince an industrialist that a company's workers were ready to unionize...
Yale undertook some retributive action last week as its deadlines for grade submission passed. The university had denied spring teaching positions to the grade strikers, but now it may reconsider...
Classes resumed Monday following winter break, and the undergraduates received their grade sheets...