Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family is right out of The Grapes of Wrath," Knight says. She was raised in the tiny town of Mitchell, Kans. Shirley Enola got her early education in a one-room schoolhouse. Her Oklahoma-born father was the only one in his family to finish grade school, but unlike Pa Joad of Steinbeck's novel, he finally made it big−in oil. Shirley is proud: "He supports everybody in sight now. He has two Lincoln Continentals and a mobile home parked in his driveway...
Fitzsimmons' track experience dates back to eighth grade, "but I didn't get serious with year-round running and cross country until the winter of my sophomore year in high school...
Mary G. Paget, coordinator of sports, dance and recreation at Radcliffe, said yesterday the controversy arose when a group of seventh and eighth grade students from Buckingham, Brown and Nichols School, a local private school, were allowed to use the Radcliffe pool from noon to 1 p.m. This time is usually the busiest hour of pool use, she said...
Hall points with great pride to Manter Hall's diagnostic reading program. The school annually administers its own reading test to students, testing a variety of reading skills, "so we can show students where they stand in comparison to other students at the same grade level." He calls the reading test "an important feature of the school" because many students who receive good grades find themselves unable to handle the heavy reading load at the tougher college level. Twenty per cent of the school's students receive special help from two part-time reading teachers...
...finally hung up my popcorn rack and starched jacket in the tenth grade but at opening game freshman year I remember identifying more closely with my white coated cohorts than the tweed and topsider crowd which had plagued my wonder years...