Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family moved to Maine when he was eight years old. Although his mother had taught him before that, he did not attend school until the fourth grade...
...annals of beer history, so close to the hearts of numerous Harvadarians no brand has presented such danger to the language as Coors' Artic Ice. Yes, back in grade school our teachers righteously prodded us--in those interminable "map skills" classes--to put the "c" in "Arctic." But here, a nationally distributed consumer product dares to perpetuate the idea that "Artic" means something cold, frigid and perhaps highly alcoholic...
...test scores that don't go up, dilapidated furniture in the classrooms, an utter lack of technology, outmoded library methods and nonexistent science labs," Knopp said. "I give the district two of my most precious resources every day, my fourth grade daughter and my kindergarten son. I'm not sure the district does the same...
...only thing that worries me about grade inflation is its differentiation," said Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, a guest...
...year was 1962, and Donald had just delivered a talk on Abraham Lincoln in the White House. Donald recalls that President Kennedy, "thinking no doubt of how his own administration would look in the backward glance of history," told him that "No one has a right to grade a President -- who has not sat in his chair, examined the mail and information that came across his desk and learned why he made his decisions...