Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a big mandate, even for a guy who was doing trigonometry in first grade. But Goff, who is described by friends and colleagues as a visionary, has a combination of artistic, academic and personal talents that uniquely equip him to take up the struggle for racial equality...
...Phil, like his parents, did not succeedwithout having to deal with issues of race, evenat Friends Central School which he attended fromfirst through 12th grade. In a school that wasmore than 80 percent Jewish, and had only asmattering of black faces, Goff founded the BlackStudent Forum, and challenged what he saw as ateacher's racist interpretation of Cry theBeloved Country...
Goff also began his spiritual journey duringhigh school. While as late as ninth grade he canremember "asking if he could help someone" whobelieved in God, in 11th grade, he began dating a"deeply spiritual" girl who he says slowly taughthim to value the "good over the right." In hisefforts to understand her (aka do the rightthing), Goff says, he tended to order herreactions into binary categories, which he nowsees as a very 'male' strategy, which, over thetwo years they dated, slowly denied her her ownvoice (not realizing the good). After theirbreak-up and during their subsequentreconciliation, Goff says he realized...
...system, honors were determined based on a student's General Average, a number indicating a student's overall academic performance based on a grade scale ranging from...
...most of the graduation-season logistics: burning books, laughing at underclass students and issuing stock market shares in our souls to loan officers. What remains, however, is the big question: Just what was our Harvard experience all about? For the purpose of argument, ignore the water torture and Grade Z beef-like substance we have been forced to endure...