Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...derided as state-sponsored baby sitting. Yet today Georgia's $217 million program serves 61,000 kids, and is so popular with parents that some camp out all night to be first to register. Miller now advocates mandatory enrollment. "If I had a choice of pre-K or 12th grade being mandatory," he says, "I'd take pre-K in a second...
...Boys are more encouraged to do sports than they are music," Marvin said. "There's a sense that singing is not what boys do in the ninth grade...
...most complimentary gifts any writer can give--an image-rich setting. Couched in the velvet, vibrance and vixens of medieval Constantinople and Venice, Armand continues the vampire exposition that began with Interview with the Vampire. Figuring to a small degree in Interview (whose later film spawned my eighth-grade obsession with Brad Pitt) was Armand, the head of the Paris coven of vampires. How was it that Armand rose to such otherworldly prominence? Armand relates its title character's rise from slavery to vampirism under the tutelage of Marius, a beautiful and seemingly omnipotent predator long in the business...
...Mansfield's chief criticisms of affirmative action is that it has destroyed the climate of America's universities--producing grade inflation and lowering expectations...
...went by Jaime until fourth grade. She was playing on boys' hockey teams at the time, so she decided to go by her initials because she "saw Jaime as a feminine name...