One example is the Harlem Village Academy, which opened in September 2003 with one class of fifth graders and has been growing one grade per year since.

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As part of my job, I reported alarming inadequacies: in one case high-grade equipment (ASME III, class 1) was operated in nuclear power reactors with no accepted safety file, regardless of a previous accident and a half-dozen failures in achieving acceptable design results.

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When I went to grade school in a working class neighborhood in the 1950s, there was one kid in our class of 40 whose parents were divorced.

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He said she had raised her grade to an A this semester, one of the top in the class, he said.

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Mr. Weiner said she had raised her grade to an A this semester, one of the top in the class, he said.

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