Word: grading
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...DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the 7th grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...
...released before the meeting, committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 wrote that “The recent State EQA report states that the [system’s] achievement, which they measure through an indepth look at [test] scores, within district and compared to the state by grade, subgroup, timeframe, etc., is below standard...
...they couldn't seem to actually use it up. Although they offered it heartily when local people came over, it didn't seem to move. Something about the house just wasn't conducive to drinking. "There's something wrong with my family" was all I could conclude in fourth grade...
...remain. Of course, that just adds another worry for our docs-in-training; they all want to be specialists - retinal doctors, infertility specialists, wrist surgeons - but will they be able to recognize the classics? And will they realize that their medical education started with something they smelled in fourth grade...
...aware of my independent side of me that I can?t let go of. Maybe I?m East Coast. I think that?s a real thing. I?m an East Coast filmmaker. I?m not a techie. I?m terrible at that stuff - special effects. It?s like first grade for me. He?s just so much more talented than...