He must've retained more of that twelfth-grade math than he thought. From Wordnik.com. [Jed the Dead]
That, according to his twelfth-grade teacher Ben Van Eaton, was not so. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
The whole idea had been to go to Columbus after twelfth-grade summer vacation. From Wordnik.com. [Carmen (+ a Jimmy Breslin "afterword")] Reference
(The Lincoln - Douglas debates were carried out at about a twelfth-grade level.). From Wordnik.com. [Primary Sources] Reference
For reasons that cannot be explained, cats can suddenly read at a twelfth-grade level. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs] Reference
Somewhere in America last June, two twelfth-grade boys hosted a post-prom “after party” in a rented nightclub. From Wordnik.com. [The Blessing of a B Minus] Reference
Each year, 100,000 kindergarten through twelfth-grade kids participate in its hands-on, science-based environmental curriculum. From Wordnik.com. [Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: TreePeople's L.A. 2.0] Reference
Currently, she directs a multi-site school-based health center for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students and their teachers. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Schoeberlein: When a Friend Steals from You] Reference
In fact, for those students scoring 700 or above on the SAT-M the 95 percentile for twelfth-grade college-bound males, boys outnumbered girls 13 to 1. From Wordnik.com. [Choke] Reference
For me, gym class finally became almost bearable in twelfth-grade, when the emphasis shifted from team sports to what the teacher called "lifelong activities" like running, golf, and tennis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
She has more than 20 years' experience teaching fifth- through twelfth-grade students, developing curricular materials, providing professional development for teachers and pursuing freelance journalism. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Schoeberlein: When a Friend Steals from You] Reference
She has more than 20 years 'experience teaching fifth - through twelfth-grade students, developing curricular materials, providing professional development for teachers and pursuing freelance journalism. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah Schoeberlein: When a Friend Steals from You] Reference
My vocabulary was spectacular, in part because I had a superhigh reading level—I read at a twelfth-grade level when I was just in second grade—and I had taken a speed-reading class, so I read voraciously. From Wordnik.com. [Zero Regrets] Reference
For a new student, there's generally a twelve-hour advance booking time; the student specifies the specific area of study - second-grade math, for example, or twelfth-grade English, so that the tutor can prepare a lesson plan or collect appropriate materials. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Outsourcing Man Bites Dog] Reference
Is there a neutral way to choose the novels twelfth-grade AP students read?. From Wordnik.com. [FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles] Reference
Another twelfth-grade girl echoed that sentiment: 'Can you believe it, I got paddled by a male teacher?. From Wordnik.com. [SF Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
My twelfth-grade French teacher, back in 1943-44, had been a Parisienne, stranded in New York because of World War II. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice.com] Reference
An attorney general's lapse in chivalry was apparently more disqualification for higher office than the lack of a twelfth-grade education. his support crumbled. From Wordnik.com. [Blog entry] Reference
Their reading scores fell an average of six points between 1992 and 2005, and the share of proficient twelfth-grade readers dropped from forty per cent to thirty-five per cent. From Wordnik.com. [kitchen table math, the sequel] Reference
The data in Louisiana's collection system allows educators to track students from Pre-K through twelfth-grade and helps districts to determine the value of specific programs and identify performance consistencies in schools and districts. From Wordnik.com. [thenewsstar.com - Local News] Reference
The fact mentioned in the article that the presidential candidates now speak in sixth - or seventh-grade levels while the Lincoln-Douglas debates were conducted at eleventh - or twelfth-grade levels simply means that Lincoln and Douglas were not speaking to the illiterate, as they were unliklely to vote. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
(Sorry, can’t remember enough of twelfth-grade psychology.). From Wordnik.com. [Introducing Tez! « Urban Fantasy Land] Reference
Folks with a twelfth-grade high school diploma and who can’t balance a checkbook feel some authority to vociferously opine this way or that on an extraordinary economic issue they know absolutely nothing about. From Wordnik.com. [Do not call to send in the clowns, they're here!] Reference
The Women Fighters’ Brigade in Haifa, for example, included twelfth-grade girls (Gadna members who had not participated in the training for women recruits on the kibbutzim) and those belonging to the Magen David Adom (the Israeli version of the Red Cross) who had learned first aid and were “transferred to weapons training” (Eshel, 97). From Wordnik.com. [Haganah.] Reference
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