Word: grades
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...This year's near wipeout has thrown the market out of kilter. To keep its customers supplied with high-grade rice, SunRice has had to buy it from a number of other countries, then process and pack it overseas. In coming months, not even Australians will be eating much locally grown rice; instead it will be imported from Thailand, India and Pakistan. The SunRice purchases partly explain why rice importers in other parts of the world are having trouble finding supplies...
...Those lyrics, from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods come to life in Bryan Andes and Miranda Critz's first-grade classes in New York City's Midtown West Public School 212. Eight years ago Andes and colleague Karl Heist initiated a family studies program for their kindergarten classes. The following year those students, now first graders, embarked upon a curriculum in which they explored a thriving industry in their neighborhood - restaurant row. Then, in 2005, Andes and Heist had a revelation. Why not add another curriculum geared toward the other industry that is a prominent part of the school...
...Through the latter half of kindergarten and first grade, the classes make about eight trips to the theater; Kevin Kline offered tips on how to fence as he did in Cyrano de Bergerac, and the cast from Spring Awakening have shared their vocal warm-up techniques. The wardrobe mistress from Wicked showed the kids where the nooks and crannies are hidden in the show's lavish costumes to allow the leading ladies to hang from ropes...
...program works because of Andes' passion for theater and teaching, and his persistence in pursuing his famous guests and helping them devise their lesson plans. After learning from these theater professionals about the various jobs, the children then pick a job for themselves. By the end of first grade, they will have created their own musical fairy tale. This year's show, an original production called Waking Beauty (using songs from some of the musicals the kids have been introduced to), will be performed in June - with 54 first graders playing various parts, directing, designing the costumes, acting as stagehands...
...theories developed in Ec10 are extraordinarily basic,” Mankiw wrote. “No math is used beyond what a typical Harvard student would have learned in the 8th or 9th grade...