Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, he had been playing basketball since being an extraordinarily tall fourth grader, and except for a short stint as a wide receiver on his high school football team, he didn't really want to do anything else...
...Houston or her music. "Safe" and "homogenized" are, though not always fairly. She has a towering, dynamic voice, but when she sings material that's too slight for her skills (such as Love Is a Contact Sport), it's an unseemly mismatch, like Grant Hill dunking on a fifth-grader. But when Houston takes on a tune worthy of her gifts (like You Give Good Love), the result is something winged, almost seraphic. What's more, with the huge success of 1992's The Bodyguard--the movie made more than $400 million at the box office worldwide, while the sound...
...daughter [a fourth-grader] has 21 kids in her class. At $10,000 per student, that's almost a quarter of a million in resources in her class alone," Knopp said. "It seems that when her teacher has to hold a raffle to get funds for art supplies in class, there's something wrong...
...teaching in Spanish and English; today there are 20. In the District of Columbia, the Oyster Bilingual Elementary School is a pioneer in two-way education. Its student body is 58% Hispanic, 26% white, 12% black and 4% Asian, and after six years of Spanish-English curriculum, its sixth-graders score at a ninth-grade level in reading and a 10th-grade level in math. At a two-way Chinese-English program in Public School 1 in New York City's Chinatown, three eight-year--olds--a Hispanic, a Chinese and an African American--last week recited a poem they...
...bilingual aide at Horace Mann Middle School, says new arrivals have an easier time now than when he arrived in Wausau in 1979. "I struggled more, but I'm moving up O.K. I'm getting used to the life-style of this country," he says. Wausau fifth-grader Chia Vang arrived five years ago and is currently fluent in English but still finds it tough to fit in at school: "I try to make friends with Americans, but it's hard because sometimes I'm shy to ask them...