A former teaching assistant recently wrote to the New York Times about his experience with grade expectations.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The United States and Russia signed an agreement to dispose of sixty-eight tons of weapons-grade plutonium.

VOA: special.2010.04.17

"What I have seen is a lot of kids really take off because they do have the one-on-one attention and they are up to grade level, if not beyond,as a result of having been in the program."

VOA: special.2010.07.16

He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Friday,Tehran delayed its response to a proposal made by the US, France and Russia to further enrich Tehran's existing stockpile of low-grade uranium.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"Last November,Iran announced that it would build In February, Iran said that it would begin to enrich uranium to nearly 20 percent-moving,closer to weapons-grade material."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The U.S.government says Tehran is trying to make weapons-grade nuclear material.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The IAEA draft deal calls for Iran to ship its stockpile of low-grade enriched uranium to Russia to be transformed into more highly enriched uranium for use in Tehran's medical research reactor.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

On Monday,Iran formally notified the IAEA of its response to the nuclear-fuel swap deal, under which it would ship some low-enriched uranium to Turkey in return for higher grade fuel for a Tehran research reactor.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

(Sound) Amid loud acclamations of approval, top hardline Iranian cleric, Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khatami warned the West that Tehran will produce its own high-grade uranium for a medical research reactor, if the UN International Atomic Energy Agency refuses to provide the fuel.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28