Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CUNY's new entrance requirement -an eighth-grade level in both reading and math-will still seem shockingly low to most Americans. Yet over the next four years, it will disqualify an estimated 10,000 students a year saving New York about $16 million annually...
...another CUNY graduate, Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer, seemed to put the ruling into better perspective: "It seems a highly reasonable notion that a college freshman be able to read and write at the eighth-grade level...
However, he said high achievers with a touch of sickness may often choose to postpone their exams to give them a better chance at getting a higher grade...
...years old and in first grade. Now I am 18 years old and a college freshman, and this poor man's murderer is still not known for sure. For God's sake, reopen this case and resolve what really happened once...
...backyard fallout shelters and grade-school air-raid drills is mercifully bygone. But nuclear warfare is by no means implausible. Despite the existence of various accords, the race to accumulate atomic firepower proceeds...