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grade

[grayd] / greɪd /




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It serves primary-age students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

He listed some of those efforts, which include a new grade of school, transitional kindergarten for 4-year-olds; free school meals for all; and community schools, which provide services for students and families beyond academics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Though the newsletters that make the grade rarely are at the top of the annual performance sweepstakes, they hardly ever are at the bottom either.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

That led to a change in how Ofsted assessed schools, bringing in report cards designed to grade schools on several areas, rather than focusing on one overall grade.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

My mother asked me why I didn’t go to his house like I used to, and I said that the seventh grade had more homework.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

With every language-services company using its own accuracy measures, everyone essentially grades their own homework, using their own rules.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Copper ore grades are declining, pushing up the cost of extracting copper, and mine projects face high permitting and regulatory hurdles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

We also would have to administer a standardized test in certain grades, if we were going to open an actual school, and maintain annual records about student attendance and immunizations.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Refiners have increasingly sought alternative barrels from Latin America and elsewhere as availability of comparable Middle Eastern grades has tightened, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

And she definitely appreciates doing well more than I do—she was so much happier about her exam grades than I was about mine.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. insurers have around $40 billion of debt investments on their books that Egan-Jones has privately graded.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Castlehill, now renamed Morar Highland, was graded "good" in its most recent care inspection.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Among the criteria graded on Anderson's 'radar chart' were defensive regains, duel success, line-breaking passes, aerial-duel success and defensive errors.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

She also compared it to her experience having her sleep graded by professionals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

As we came in, he handed us each a clothespin and our graded family trees to hang on twine that had been strung across the back of the room.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

Wakefield have matched 2025 champions Hull KR's record grading score of 17.85 from 12 months ago, to continue their rise on and off the field under Matt Ellis' ownership.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Hospitality will become a more important metric in grading franchisee performance, Boyd said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

He added that the council had made significant progress on a new pay and grading system since the period the Accounts Commission examined.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Postproduction covers anything that happens in the final stages of filmmaking, including specialties like sound design and color grading.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Now that he wasn’t playing anymore, he found himself flunking three classes at the end of the second six-week grading period.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger


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