Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"The primary focus is to see if there are any organizing efforts we can do for [tenants]," she says. "If we just give advice on the phone, that just ends the effort right there. There isn't any continued involvement."
Much has been written lately about grade inflation in American colleges. I am uneasy addressing the topic, having benefited so abundantly from it. But there can be no doubt that this same unwillingness to label anyone as fundamentally unfit lies behind it. Intelligent students at the University of Costa Rica...
The question remains whether it's a good policy for schools to identify certain students as unfit. Good arguments can be made both ways. There is no doubt that many bad students really are the victims of circumstance and that preserving their self-esteem may allow them to stay afloat...
"A little red flag goes off when we hear those calls, and we follow up to see if there's some organizing that we can do there," Lim says.
Now I realize that there are students who are far smarter, more productive and more deserving than I. At first I was bitter (after all, by pretending that no one is less qualified we make it harder on people who end up realizing that they are less qualified). But I...