Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Union Fellowship Program men selected do not have to meet scholastic requirements; men are picked on the basis of their proven ability in serving labor. In the past formal education of men in attendance has ranged from grade school through college...
...deal more than a mere formality; the 90,000 Roman Catholics under Bishop O'Hara's jurisdiction have good cause to be grateful to him. In the ten years since his arrival, the diocese had built or bought 42 churches, 31 rectories, 24 colleges, high schools and grade schools, 14 convents, eight social centers, six hospitals and 25 other structures...
Backless Books. His first students numbered 35-girls in pigtails and fresh cotton dresses, boys in faded, shabby shirts. They had come with their dinner baskets in their hands and battered, backless books under their arms. Not one wore shoes. There were 19-year-olds in the first grade, 14-year-olds in the second, and a twelve-year-old girl in the eighth...
Among the 19-year-olds was Guy Hawkins, who had been in the first grade for eight years. One evening, when Teacher Stuart was working late at the school, Guy came back. "I aim to whip you," he said. "It's the same place where I whipped your sister." The two men fought, but this time it was Guy who took the beating...
...York City expected its biggest enrollment in seven years; it had eight new school units to accommodate it, was building 20 more. Los Angeles had built 835 new classrooms for elementary pupils alone, then found that that was not nearly enough. Detroit had raised $55 million for new grade schools, but it knew that its troubles were just beginning. "This part is easy," said one school-board member. "Just wait till this crop hits the high schools...