Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hankins, while disturbed by the state of events, consented to give them "remedial Renaissance history." After the crash course, both passed and managed to graduate. One has even remained in contact with him, but not to talk about history. "One of them wants his grade changed. He tells me the honor of his family depends on his getting a B," Hankins deadpans...
...easel in my bedroom for a colorful client presentation. "Costs, customers and competitors. This seminar on early Hebrew literature might look interesting, for example, but when we perform a cost-benefit analysis, we see that the amount of boredom actually increases as the course progresses, while your projected grade decreases. The course's consumer base is suspiciously small, so before pursuing this niche market, it is essential to study the competition." The consultants then embarked on a fact-finding mission to interview the guy downstairs, a near Eastern languages student writing his thesis on Mesopotamian divorce contracts. When the student...
Without a working PIN--which HASCS' security system requires for users to access their grade reports--a student must request a new one or wait for the old-fashioned report card...
Looking back, looking back. Hill grew up in South Orange, N.J.; her father was a management consultant, her mother a grade-school English teacher. From an early age, Lauryn (she has an elder brother Malaney) was into singing and performing. When she was in middle school, she was invited to sing the national anthem at a high school basketball game. "People went wild," says LuElle Walker-Peniston, Hill's guidance counselor at Columbia High School. "I don't think we had a winning team, but she was inspiring." Fans liked her rendition so much that recordings of it were played...
Sitting in her eighth grade classroom in the shadow of Mather Tower, Cheryl T. Haynes, a 24-year-old veteran teacher, can remember when teacher testing was not a controversial issue...