Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that reading about the "underside of life" is always inappropriate for young children. When I was seven years old (more than a half-century ago), Make Way for Ducklings and Peter Churchmouse were my favorite books, and the troll under the bridge was the scariest thing in my second-grade reader. At that time, I read in LIFE magazine how Americans who survived the Bataan death march were forced by their Japanese captors to beat fellow prisoners until they died. We may underestimate children's capacity to handle the truth. My lifelong abhorrence of cruelty and violence is anchored...
Over spring break, I went back to first grade. Through a Radcliffe externship, I spent a week in the Vermont countryside, staying with a first-grade teacher and helping out in her class every...
These are six-and seven-year-olds, I admit. They're not yet expected to be polite, gracious members of society. But when I chatted with my sponsor, who has taught first grade for 25 years, she said that 10 and 15 years ago, she didn't have to teach kids how to blow their noses. She didn't have to remind kids as much to wash their hands. They learned these social skills where they should learn them--from their parents, at home...
...book prompted her decision to attend college to study physics, though she didn't find success initially. Franklin's physics grade after her first year at the University of Toronto was a C. But intelligence didn't seem to be the problem. Franklin just wasn't used to studying...
...initial nominations of 30 women and 24 men were based solely on their grade point averages (GPAs), and the final selections of 12 men and 12 women was based on students' courses and the breadth of their curriculum, according to Michelle Hewitt, assistant to the Dean of Students...