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Bruner observed, as have I and countless others, that the end game of this iteration of education is seen in many of the incurious, grade-grubbing, high-achieving students spawned over the past few decades.
Steve Nelson: The Dark Side of Acing the Tests Steve Nelson 2011
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Bruner observed, as have I and countless others, that the end game of this iteration of education is seen in many of the incurious, grade-grubbing, high-achieving students spawned over the past few decades.
Steve Nelson: The Dark Side of Acing the Tests Steve Nelson 2011
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Meanwhile, a grade-grubbing, self-centered rat of a teenager (Katie) can win early admission to an elite liberal-arts college thanks to a by-the-numbers application and spend her senior year of high school lording it over her peers — while obsessively cutting herself in private.
Supplication Process Gabriella Stern 2010
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CONAN: I think the practice is known as grade-grubbing.
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Meanwhile, a grade-grubbing, self-centered rat of a teenager (Katie) can win early admission to an elite liberal-arts college thanks to a by-the-numbers application and spend her senior year of high school lording it over her peers — while obsessively cutting herself in private.
Supplication Process Gabriella Stern 2010
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Does this encourage grade-grubbing, Jeremy Gelbart?
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CONAN: I think the practice is known as grade-grubbing.
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Does this encourage grade-grubbing, Jeremy Gelbart?
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Does this encourage grade-grubbing, Jeremy Gelbart?
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CONAN: I think the practice is known as grade-grubbing.
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