Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar issue that arose in my home state of Florida about 10 years ago. All college sophomores were required to take and pass the CLAST test in order to continue on to the college of their chosen major. The test was supposed to be at about a 10th grade level. I honestly feel it was much easier than that, and I went to a mediocre public high school and was a B student in college...
...Paul unlocks the battered turquoise door. The room is tired, cold and empty. No music, no prostitutes. No drugs, no egg rolls to go. Not even a cigarette butt. Just a junky room with some papier-mâché dragons. The desolate service bar looks like a seventh grade woodshop project. The stools are stacked upside down...
After months of preparation, it's time for final exams even though it's only late February. This weekend the women's swimming and diving team (7-3, 5-2 Ivy) will earn its final grade heading into the Ivy Championships at Princeton...
...Linda Neri, communications manager for the Massachusetts Coalition for Higher Standards, a public-interest group specializing in the issue of the MCAS, points to a piece of information she says many worried parents and teachers may not know: students who do not pass the test in the 10th grade can retake the test in the 11th and 12th grades...
...biggest problem I've had with Audible is with its sound quality, which reminds me of the worn-out sound tracks in drug-education films in grade school. Also, I couldn't make the sound loud enough to be heard over the roar of my ghastly train, which makes me think it wouldn't work well on ghastly airplanes either. Audible's software interface, which allows you to select programs, could use simplification. On my maiden voyage, I thought I had set up three Keillor monologues, a chunk of Franken and some Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...