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...presently indicated by the poll, Shaheen said that “even if there is some drop-off, there will still be an increase in what we have seen young people do in past midterm elections.” According to the poll President Bush was rated an average grade of “C-” on seven key issues: terrorism, education, environment, economy, health care, immigration, and the war in Iraq. His worst mark was a “D+” on the war in Iraq. David C. King, lecturer in public policy...
...made several improvements to the evaluations, such as moving to online forms in the spring of 2005 and adding some course-specific questions this fall. In addition, the current one-to-five numeric scale should be expanded to a seven-point system, since students’ hesitancy to grade below a “3” effectively shortens the scale to three points...
...would you grade the state of the game in the NBA? When I came in, 14 years ago, it was an A-. After Jordan left [in 1993], it kind of went down to a C--, and then it was a C for a while. The [1998] lockout took it down to a D. And after that, it started coming back up. Now it's at a B+. It's not like it was when Magic and Bird were at their prime, but it's close...
Louis Menand turned in the “first draft” of his task force’s report early this month, and now he’s waiting to see if it will earn a passing grade...
...friend's eight-year-old son brought a DVD home from school the other day, a 10-minute collection of "highlights" from his third-grade class. As far as I could tell he wasn't attending an Iranian elementary school so much as one of those scary Pakistani-type madrassas, where rows of boys sit on the floor memorizing the Koran and the alumni all died at Tora Bora. The first minutes captured the class making ritual ablutions before prayer, followed by scenes of them actually praying together in the classroom, and finally, a lively segment of them practicing...