Word: grades
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...committee, headed by chapter president and Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, selected the honorees out of an original pool of 96 students who were chosen on the basis of grade point average...
...This high-stakes, high-standards test is the first in the nation to require students to reach what may be a prohibitively high level of competence for the average student. For months, educators and parents around the state have been waiting with bated breath to see what grade would constitute a passing mark on this test. That grade was revealed on Nov. 23, when the Massachusetts Board of Education recommended that students be required to score in the "needs improvement" category or above on both the math and English sections of the test...
...found your article on the accelerated rate of teaching reading and math in kindergarten very interesting [EDUCATION, Nov. 8]. I am a parent of a six-year-old kindergartner who has been "redshirted," or held back from starting first grade. I did not make this decision based on theories like that of the early-education consultant who claims that kids need "more time in the classroom." Quite the contrary. I felt that what our young son needed most was more time to play. If what he has ahead of him in later grades is the kind of education tedium that...
...teaching children to read before age five is wrong, when is the proper time? My parents caught me reading your magazine at age three and entered me in the first grade at age four. My early education gave me many valuable experiences. I speak for myself and other gifted students who were probably bored to death with the regular pace and curriculum of their classrooms. Kids are ready when they are ready, and some teachers will welcome the challenge. DANA HURD Chicago...
...kindly teaching fellows who will grade our hastily completely problem sets and papers with sympathy and understanding...