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Everywhere the author turns his gaze — from bumper stickers that boast about "my kid the honor-roll student" to boosterish "employee of the month" awards — Mr. Best sees a proliferation of prizes that seems to arise from a desperate desire to exclude fewer and fewer people from the winner's podium.
Why We're All Above Average Sam Schulman 2011
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SOLOMON: Not surprisingly, honor-roll students like sophomore Hannah Kim like the tougher grading, especially because it comes with extra help, even for students who only occasionally get a low grade.
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These were Andover honor-roll kids, one at Georgetown, one at the very swank University of Richmond (great business school -- maybe our boy is the future CEO of a big pharmaceutical corporation?).
Enterprising chemistry majors at Georgetown Joel Achenbach 2010
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SOLOMON: Not surprisingly, honor-roll students like sophomore Hannah Kim like the tougher grading, especially because it comes with extra help, even for students who only occasionally get a low grade.
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She is an honor-roll student who also sings in her church choir.
Abolitionist Douglass's words inspire competing student orators Chris L. Jenkins 2010
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She is an honor-roll student who also sings in her church choir.
Abolitionist Douglass's words inspire competing student orators Chris L. Jenkins 2010
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The patriarchs were called sojourners; Ruth was a Moabite living in Bethlehem; Joseph was so assimilated into Egyptian culture his brothers did not recognize him; Nebuchadnezzar deported Daniel; Moses was an alien fugitive in Midian; David lived with the Philistines fleeing King Saul; Jesus, our Peace, our Redemption Crucified, was an infant carried over a border, like so many of my honor-roll discipleship students who dream about a future denied.
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She is an honor-roll student who also sings in her church choir.
Abolitionist Douglass's words inspire competing student orators Chris L. Jenkins 2010
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The patriarchs were called sojourners; Ruth was a Moabite living in Bethlehem; Joseph was so assimilated into Egyptian culture his brothers did not recognize him; Nebuchadnezzar deported Daniel; Moses was an alien fugitive in Midian; David lived with the Philistines fleeing King Saul; Jesus, our Peace, our Redemption Crucified, was an infant carried over a border, like so many of my honor-roll discipleship students who dream about a future denied.
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Without the DREAM Act, about 65,000 students a year -- honor-roll students, star athletes, talented artists and aspiring teachers -- graduate high school and then hit a roadblock.
Rep. Mike Honda: Lame-Duck Session: A Time to DREAM Rep. Mike Honda 2010
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