Looking back, in terms of successfully completing an agenda, what grade would you give the Democrats this year?
Ofqual's research found many schools used the marks pupils received in their first exams and the January grade boundaries to work out what score a pupil would need in their controlled assessment to get a certain grade and marked it accordingly.
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Those 50% of us Americans who think and read beyond an 8th grade level know what the consequences of default are.
Some of his animals are now eating what he calls "decidedly second grade silage".
Remember that kid that got up and he told a story about what it was like in seventh grade and how geeky he was...
Benedict then celebrated Mass in the city's square, drawing huge crowds, as legions of musicians playing wind and string instruments performed during pauses in his sermon, supported by what appeared to be concert-grade sound systems.
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Later Monday evening, Benedict delivered Mass in the city's square, drawing huge crowds as legions of musicians playing wind and string instruments performed during pauses in his sermon, supported by what appeared to be concert-grade sound systems.
First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig heard what sounded like the rapid firing of an assault rifle.
Senator LINDSEY GRAHAM (Republican, South Carolina): It's what I was told in the ninth grade Congress would be like, where you had members of the Senate with the members of the executive branch, cabinet secretaries, literally writing a bill line by line.
It says more than 10, 000 pupils missed out on a C grade in GCSE English because of what they have called a "statistical fix".
You cannot do anything that is of a lower grade and a lower quality than what has just been done on Clash of the Titans.
Speaking to the BBC after his meeting with the watchdog, Brian Lightman, general secretary of ASCL, said the issue was not re-marking papers, but altering grade boundaries and "putting right what's happened".
Kindergarten, elementary school -- I don't know what you guys call it -- before eighth grade.
What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.
Authorities investigating how 20-year-old Adam Lanza allegedly carried out the killings Friday morning said it could take weeks to draw a clear picture of what motivated the reclusive man to target two first-grade classrooms in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.
We choose to take 75 cents on the dollar and invest in investment-grade securities, because we want to stick to what we think we have an expertise in.
Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
The tests are also used by New York City to help determine promotions to the next grade and summer school attendance, and scores can help determine what middle or high school children attend.
He praised Murphy for sacrificing his life to save his team in Afghanistan, but he said what really makes Murphy his choice was that when Murphy was in 8th grade, he defended a special needs student who was being bullied.
"Just seeing so many from grade school going through big life changes and it makes you question what you're doing, " she said.
While we should maintain the law's strong focus on getting kids to proficiency in reading and math, grade-level math and reading skills are just the beginning of what children will need to succeed in 21st-century workplaces.
"Only God knows what is in the ground, but what they have delineated so far has been big on tonnage, light on grade, and a lot of it is deep, " says John Ing, a gold analyst at Maison Placements Canada.
What once had been a sophisticated looking office the size of his sister's grade school had been reduced to a blackened pile of rubble.
What No Child Left Behind says is that we are going to have our kids on grade level by 2014.
The client was particularly nervous about taking that chance on his essay because his college grade point average (GPA) was only 3.0--not what's needed to get into a top business school.
"The younger children in a grade were significantly more likely to be diagnosed, labeled, and treated with medication for what in some of them must simply be immaturity, " Garland says.
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In exchange for an upfront fee, a bond insurer would take a bond with a midling investment grade rating -- single-A, for example -- and offer to pay investors what they were due if the issuer defaulted.
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