Critics of President Obama's planned trip see the visit as giving an A grade to performance that merits a mark of at best "Incomplete".
Assigning a grade to Project Long Island is difficult, in part because the association changed its target goals in midflight.
"So if I had to give my season a grade to this point, I'd probably give it a B".
At New Trier, a rigorous public high school on Chicago's affluent North Shore, repeating a grade to shore up a solid transcript is out of the question.
FINISH LINES STEWART ELLIOTT, Smarty Jones's jockey, won in his return to Monmouth Park yesterday, guiding Skip a Grade to victory in the 11th race.
Traditionally, a small percentage of students have repeated a grade to allow them time to mature or to fill in subject gaps.
The Regents will assign a grade to each school depending on what percentage of students reach Level 2 or Level 3 on each test.
In 1998, for example, the Society of Civil Engineers gave a grade to America's infrastructure of D. In 2001, after the Clinton investments, the grade assigned was D+.
They trudged down a grade to a hidden patch of land, a tilted triangle of desolate ailanthus and weeds, choked in exhaust at the edge of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, cars whirring indifferent below.
Hitching his horse to a fence, the boy climbed aboard and began pumping his way down the track, past the scrub of sagebrush and greasewood, down a grade to the base of a narrow pass.
Instead of dwelling on the few of my students who feel entitled to a high grade, I prefer to think of the many who accept their grades, or who question a grade to find out whether I made an error in grading (which does happen) — or even, to find out how to do better.
