Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordie demonstrated his potential for the ski team at an early age. In third grade he stuck a fork in an electrical outlet, grasping tightly to ensure that the contact was good. It wasn't that he was trying to kill himself, he just figured that it might be interesting...
...years ago Alice in Wonderland attracted the attention of the Manhattan Project but an avant-grade sort of theater group headed by a guy named Andre Gregory in Manhattan. As I recall their production involved lots of vaudeville-type stuff and so on and got good reviews and is coming to the Loeb at 8 p.m. on Monday, staying until Wednesday, and being followed by Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME...
...Cain, the line between the law and the lawless had always been fuzzy. Born in a tough neighborhood not far from where he died, the street-wise Cain left school after eighth grade, but did a good job of self-education. He learned five languages, mastered many of the techniques of eavesdropping and once studied law books for several months. When he later faced conspiracy and other charges, he creditably defended himself in court. Handsome and spectacled, Cain was polite, well read and intelligent. At the same time, he had a hedonist's love of flashy clothes...
...nervous tic afflicting the Tokyo grade school girl was so severe that her entire body shook every time she twitched. When she was finally brought to Tokyo Psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki, the diagnosis was surprisingly simple. The girl was lefthanded, and her mother had been trying to make her use her right hand by binding the left with tape. Two days after mom's therapy was stopped, the tic disappeared...
Then what can be done for the pupil who is not promoted? Many learn little more during their second or even third repeat than during their first year in a grade. Under the new New York City policy, says School Chancellor Irving Anker, pupils who are "left back" will be given "individually prescribed programs" based on their deficiencies and needs. Skeptical New York City teachers applaud his intentions, but many doubt that the money, classroom space and skilled teachers are available to give slow readers the attention they so desperately need...