grader
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“It’s a very tough test,” says Terrance Sullivan, who has been a coffee grader for 41 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
John DeMuria, chief executive of coffee supply-chain company Coastal Commodities, and a grader of 35 years, said he failed the first time he tried.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
It was a pretty grueling schedule for a seventh grader.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
Although Liam has since been released, “We’ve had other students in our building also taken in. We realized a fifth grader was also at the detention center; they had just kind of disappeared.”
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2026
There were five of us in the race: me, Webb, two other seventh graders, and a sixth grader.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
This spring, the chicks were dubbed Luna and Sandy, a nod to Steers, with local third graders making the final call in a community naming contest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Unified 8th graders and 8th graders statewide started off with higher scores, and improved at a slower rate: a rise of 6.2 percentage points for Locke; 2.9% for L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
An entire country just gave all of its 10th and 11th graders their own ChatGPT accounts to use for school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Two-thirds of fourth graders can’t do math problems properly, and almost three-quarters can’t read at grade level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
“I had no idea seventh graders have anything to break up from,” Dad puts in, surprised.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
