Word: schoolwork
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Segregation was a way of life," says Ray House, now 76, Helms' high school principal. House adds: "Everybody played together?Jesse played with black kids too." (Helms said, a few years ago, that segregation was "not wrong for its time.") He was a gangling teen-ager whose schoolwork was only passably good except in math and English. "He had a big vocabulary for a country town," says Hinson. Clontz agrees: "He always used big words...
...three cubicles, quietly working on a correspondence curriculum supplied by Illinois' Christian Liberty Academy. The curriculum covers traditional subjects from a religious perspective, and includes a special Bible course and "truth packs" criticizing such "liberal values" as equality for women, socialism, abortion and premarital sex. The academy grades schoolwork and issues report cards through the mail. On the nationally standardized Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, which measure linguistic and mathematical ability, the Rushton girls, who have studied at home for the past two years, scored two to three years above their grade levels...
Cleary and others stressed that longer seasons and more intense competition with other schools have stepped up pressure on today's athletes--effectively eliminating three-sport athletes and intensifying the difficulty of balancing athletics and schoolwork...
...good at producing plays, terrible as third base for the Radcliffe softball team, and completely apathetic as the Winthrop House delegate to the Student Assembly. There were other activities, but I found them all limiting. I had hundreds of aquaintances but few close friends. I never did schoolwork. I took courses I felt I should take--and did badly because they didn't interest interest...
Parrette recalls that the older boys in particular refused to do traditional schoolwork. "They wouldn't read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, but they would read newspaper clipping enthusiastically," he added. The counselors adapted the "curriculum;" the older boys read the Boston Globe, Essence and Ebony and discussed topical issues while some of the younger kids continued to practice the three...