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...making sure they are ready for college or a career. In other words, he wants to make sure a high school diploma means students actually have the skills they need to compete in an increasingly global workforce. Obama would define school success by how much improvement students make from grade to grade, no matter where they started, as opposed to the current system, in which schools are judged on students' absolute performance, not their progress. Obama's model is similar to the one we pioneered three years ago here in New York City, where we give schools...
Winthrop got the same grade as Kirkland for the same reasons that Kirkland earned its A, but Winthrop stole the show with a brain break that edged out the competition. Not only did Winthrop stock the special items and the standard fare, but it also supplemented the late-night snack with cocoa rice krispies treats and an assortment of pies. Winthrop would have managed to execute a flawless victory, but its selection of cereals was incomplete...
...said the museum’s “spirit collections” that preserve specimens in alcohol—invertebrate zoology, herpetology, and ichthyology—will not move because alcohol cannot be housed below grade, in accordance with fire regulations...
Professor Daniel G. Donoghue, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English department, said that having theses due before spring break is needed to give faculty ample time to grade theses and conduct oral exams before final grades are due. Four weeks is usually required for a comfortable grading schedule, he added...
Brent distinctly remembers a story from seventh-grade basketball, in which he was playing point guard and didn’t take a shot the entire game, even passing up wide-open lay-ups in order to give his teammates the ball. After the game, his parents brought him into a room which had a sign that read, “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built...