Word: grades
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Elana C. Rome ’07 said her 10th-grade geometry class at Community Charter School of Cambridge gives her “such a high...
...Harvard hockey jersey and a crimson Veritas flag cover the faded walls of Marc A. Parris’ ’06 ninth-grade classroom at Community Charter School of Cambridge...
...assistant teacher in an 11th grade humanities class at Community Charter School, said that she had to reconsider some of her academic plans to participate in the program...
...Incentives apply to the football players, too: to stay on the team, they must keep a 2.5 grade-point average (out of a possible 4). Staff and students agree that Hankerson, himself a former Miami high school basketball star, has generated a renewed air of discipline and academic purpose. "We've only had a couple fights on campus this year, where we'd probably already had 15 this time last year," says Marcus Forston, 18, a senior defensive tackle with a 3.5 GPA. "We're getting pushed in the right direction...
...perspective about what sports should be at this age." Northwestern is hardly the only prep football powerhouse to face embarrassment of late. Nor are such problems confined to poor minority schools. An investigation recently found that staff at Hoover High School in affluent, mostly white Hoover, Ala., had changed grades for football players. So, while the Northwestern Bulls handily won their second consecutive state championship in last Saturday's final, to Hankerson, "our true state championship comes in March, when our students take the FCAT." His goal: to raise Northwestern's grade, currently an F, to at least...