Word: grades
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...media coverage. outside of the classroom, we distributed an educational flyer which outlined our position and the reasons for it--using quotations from Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfied '53 as the appeared in The Crimson. In the flyer, we noted that Mansfield believes that blacks cause grade inflation and that their presence at Harvard is dubious. One might argue that Mansfield's comments about blacks render him unfit to teach, since his biases would prevent him from treating black students fairly or humanely. Mansfield's comments do not offer dialogue with black students or faculty, as many blacks...
...number of students receiving the Detur Book Prize, an award based on their first-year grade point average, was increased this year to twice its original size...
This year, 123 students received the prestigious academic prize, awarded to students with the highest grade point averages in the after two semesters...
...today there are 20. In the District of Columbia, the Oyster Bilingual Elementary School is a pioneer in two-way education. Its student body is 58% Hispanic, 26% white, 12% black and 4% Asian, and after six years of Spanish-English curriculum, its sixth-graders score at a ninth-grade level in reading and a 10th-grade level in math. At a two-way Chinese-English program in Public School 1 in New York City's Chinatown, three eight-year--olds--a Hispanic, a Chinese and an African American--last week recited a poem they had written together in Cantonese...
...recalled. Last year the partnership effort was dropped. No one felt the fallout more than ousted board member Fred Prehn, who had championed the plan. "I received phone messages telling me that I would get a bullet in my head and that my child would never reach the first grade," said Prehn, a dentist. He says eight white families stormed into his office, denounced him as a "Hmong lover" and took their business elsewhere. Under threat of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, the new board conceived a plan for racial balance in the schools by redefining...