Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fourth, we must improve the quality of primary and secondary schools, particularly among minority people. In some schools a kid goes to high school 12 years and comes out on a fifth grade level. He's just passed on up the road...
...after examining the printouts, HEW and Harvard officials agree that certain cases merit further examination. Harvard will let the Federal officials look at the employee's personnel record card. This card contains more information about an employee's hiring, time in grade, promotion, and dismissal...
Esbats at the Sanderses' include dancing, chanting, feasting and the fondling of various ritual objects. When the occasion calls for the elevation of a member to a third-grade witch, there is highly formalized sexual intercourse. But Sanders insists that only those who are married or engaged to each other can partake of this ceremony, in which man and woman represent the sun and moon in fruitful conjunction. New witch recruits must be content to kneel before the altar and receive 40 purifying strokes across the buttocks. Some covens use whips made with shoelaces that may leave permanent scars...
...Cavanagh picked up a second-hand girl's tennis racket in the ninth grade and taught himself how to play tennis on the asphalt public courts of Cranston, R.I. He never received any lessons or any formal high school coaching...
...play as a comedy, the celebration of Ferdinand and Miranda's marriage in the fourth act, at which Prospero displays his magical powers by creating a host of spirits, is played in a light and frivolous vein, Iris and Ceres reciting their lines like girls in a sixth-grade English class. This parody of the wedding hymn, necessary to maintain the exaggerated acting, is the most obvious violation of Shakespeare's intent, but in the context of this production a more solemn celebration would have been inconsistent...