Word: grades
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...Sudan every summer to visit relatives. For el-Gaili, growing up the only Sudanese expatriate at his Saudi school, memories of the town el-Gaili, named after an ancestor and 25 miles north of Khartoum, became a major influence over his identification with his country. Still, from ninth grade onwards, el-Gaili harbored dreams of going to America and broadening his horizons...
Silberstein credits his family with nurturing his interests in computers and traveling at an early age. He learned programming in second grade and has traveled extensively with his family...
Robin A. Harris, a sixth-grade teacher at the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge and a member of the committee in 1994-95, ousted incumbent Alfred B. Fantini in the election by a margin of only 200 votes...
Despite these successes, there was one important area in which students got a failing grade. To quote President Bok, "There is no indication that college has had much success in increasing kindness, sympathy, altruism, or friendliness toward others." In fact, students themselves did not report any noticeable improvement in "moral sensitivity or character" during their undergraduate years...
Another question, perhaps unanswerable, is whether this and other recent incidents are part of a cycle in which each shooting spawns the next. Last week three sixth-grade boys were apprehended in St. Charles, Mo., for planning an attack on their school, apparently inspired by the Jonesboro incident. "In the past 10 years, we've seen a lot more real violence on television," says Aletha Huston, a professor of child development at the University of Texas at Austin. "It can feed the fantasies of disturbed adolescents...