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Definition: Grade |
GradeAdjective1. At surface level; "a grade crossing". 2. (of domestic animals) improved by selective breeding. Noun1. A body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy". 2. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group: "lumber of the highest grade". 3. The gradient of a slope or road or other surface: "the road had a steep grade". 4. One-hundredth of a right angle. 5. A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance); "she made good marks in algebra"; "grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?". 6. The height of the ground on which something stands: "the base of the tower was below grade". 7. A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality: "a moderate degree of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree". 8. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree grade". Verb1. Assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?". 2. Level to the right gradient. 3. Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework". 4. Determine the grade of or assign a grade to. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The rise or fall of a ground surface or of the line of a road, ditch, or other linear construction, expressed as one unit vertical to so many units horizontal(e. g. 1/20 or one-in-twenty)or as a per cent or degrees of slope. Source: European Union. (references) |
| To reduce (as the line of a canal or roadbed) to an even grade whether on the level or in a progressive ascent or descent. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Fine Arts | Classification of the inherent contrast in printing papers (which are usually obtainable in a range of different contrast grades). Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Grade eggs by quality and weight [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An established quality-or use-classification of timber and in the USA also of trees, and of bamboos, canes, rosin and other forest produce. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The proportion and distribution of coarse, medium, and fine soil particles in relation to structural use. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The -- of cotton is based on three factors, all related to appearance: color, leaf, and preparation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | The grade of a tumor depends on how abnormal the cancer cells look under a microscope and how quickly the tumor is likely to grow and spread. Grading systems are different for each type of cancer. (references) |
Industry | One of a series of patterns for clothing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mathematics | For a continuous population, the grade of an individual variate value is the proportion of the total frequency with values less than or equal to that value; it is thus equivalent to the(cumulated)distribution function of that value. For discontinuous distributions the grade is similarly defined except that, by convention, an individual bearing the specified variate value counts as half an individual for the purpose of calculating proportional frequencies, the other half being regarded as lying in the remaining part of the range to the right of the specified value. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | Original ground level; ditch is below grade, parapet above grade. (references) |
Mining | A. A coal classification based on degree of purity, i.e., quantity of inorganic material or ash left after burning. CF:type; rank b. The relative quantity or the percentage of ore-mineral or metal content in an orebody. Syn:tenor c. A degree of inclination, or a rate of ascent or descent, with respect to the horizontal, of a road, railroad, embankment, conduit, or other engineering structure; it is expressed as a ratio (vertical to horizontal), a fraction (such as m/km or ft/mi), or a percentage (of horizontal distance). CF:gradient d. Height above sea level; actual elevation. Also, the elevation of the finished surface of an engineering project (such as of a canal bed, embankment top, or excavation bottom) e. A particular size (diameter), size range, or size class of particles of a soil, sediment, or rock; a unit of a grade scale, such as clay grade, silt grade, sand grade, or pebble grade f. See:metamorphic grade g. The classification of an ore according to the desired or worthless material in it or according to value h. The degree of strength of a high explosive. Those above 40% nitroglycerin are arbitrarily designated as high-grade dynamites, and those below 40% nitroglycerin as low-grade dynamites. i.e., quantity of inorganic material or ash left after burning. CF:type; rank j. A term used to designate the extent to which metamorphism has advanced. Found in such combinations as high- or low-grade metamorphism. CF:ran. (references) |
Public Administration | Category of workers of roughly similar abilities and corresponding pay scale. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Education in the United States is highly decentralised with funding and curriculum decisions taking place mostly at the local level through school boards. Educational standards are generally set by state agencies. The Federal government through the United States Department of Education is involved with funding programs.
School Grades
Primary education and secondary education in the United States together are sometimes referred to as K-12 (kindergarten through twelfth grade). It should be noted that practice can vary from this general picture.
Level / Grade, Age (Years old)
"Middle school" or "Junior high school" may refer to schools that begin in 7th grade and end in either 8th or 9th grade, where 6th grade is the final grade in elementary school, and in the case ending in 9th grade, only grades 10, 11, and 12 are in high school. The term "junior high school" and the arrangement beginning with 7th grade is now much less common.
- Pre-School, Nursery School, or Head Start; Under 5
- Elementary School In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, Elementary School or Grammar School included grades one through eight, high school included grades nine through twelve.
- Kindergarten 5-6
- 1st Grade 6-7
- 2nd Grade 7-8
- 3rd Grade 8-9
- 4th Grade 9-10
- 5th Grade 10-11
- Middle school (also called Junior High School)
- 6th Grade 11-12 (not always. Some Elementary Schools include 6th grade as their highest grade.)
- 7th Grade 12-13
- 8th Grade 13-14
- High school
- 9th Grade (Freshman year) 14-15
- 10th Grade (Sophomore year) 15-16
- 11th Grade (Junior year) 16-17
- 12th Grade (Senior year) 17-18
"High school" runs from grades 9 through 12.
- College or University Undergraduate grades are also called Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior years.
- Undergraduate
- College or university
- Four years leading to a a Bachelor or Arts (BA) or a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree.
- Community college
- Lower division, two years leading to an Associate of Arts (AA) degree.
- Upper division, two years leading to B.A. or B.S.
- Postgraduate
- Two years leading to a Master of Arts (MA) degree.
- Four or more years leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree or two or more years after earning a Masters.
Contemporary issues in the United States
Major educational issues in the United States center on curriculum, funding, and control.
Curriculum issues
- What type of school works best.
- How to teach reading: phonics vs. whole language
- Evolution: whether to teach evolution as a historical truth, or simply present evidence and how it supports various theories.
- sex education: how much to teach about sexual intercourse, and at what age; is purpose to reduce disease and out-of-wedlock pregnancy, or what?
- "diversity" and hate speech: to what extent may students be required to tolerate or even approve of repugnant people and practices?
- Dumbing down of curriculum: high school graduates often at 6th to 8th grade levels in 3 R's.
Funding
Each state government provides free schools for residents, funded by taxes (often on real estate).
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.- Speech 11/23/1900
- Vouchers: have voucher programs helped students learn better? Or do they damage public education? What are the trends?
- Spending: is there any correlation between per-pupil spending and student achievement?
- Class size: does hiring more teachers to reduce the teacher-student ratio have any correlation with student achievement?
- Current trends in US: building more prisons than schools. Samuel Clemens' thoughts on the matter:
Control
There are some facts. In U.S. law parents have the ultimate responsibility for, and authority over their children's education. The crucial tests of this legal doctrine occurred in attempts to sue public school officials for malpractice, in cases where, for example, illiterate young people graduated from high-school. The U.S. Supreme Court (Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)) defined the proper goal for education as "literacy and self-sufficiency," that is, an educated, not a socialized child was recognized as the essential goal for the U.S.'s democratic republic. This decision is now interpreted as court recognition that parents have a fundamental right to choose the method to achieve literacy and self-sufficiency, that is to educate their children.
- Who's responsible for a child's education?
- Who decides curriculum contents: what should be mandatory, what should be forbidden?
See also
- United States Department of Education
- List of schools in the United States
- Education by country
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Education in the United States."
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See also: Rating
- in various contexts: Any the finite set of values (typically 1, 2, 3..., I, II, III..., A, B, C...), used in a particular grade system to designate the corresponding groups, each group regarded as sufficiently similar in complex attributes (such as performance, quality, size, rank, etc.) to be classified together for some purpose, including
- in education, either
- a teacher's evaluation of a student's work: see Grade (education), or
- a student's level of educational progress in school, see:
- Education or Education by country
- in sports, degree of difficulty of a challenge, including:
- Grade (climbing)
- Grade (bouldering)
- In telecommunication: Grade of service
- in geography, railroad engineering, and other contexts sensitive to topography, a percentage ratio of elevation differential to distance (also called gradient, and a case of mathematical slope): see grade (geography)
- in mathematics, a unit for the measurement of plane angles: see gon
- see also graded algebra.
- in moving-image (motion pictures and television) post-production, to grade is to perform the process (also called "color-timing") of color-correcting images.
- Grade is a Hardcore punk rock band of the Emo genre.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grade."
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Routes that are climbed are often given grades. The grades attempt to assess various aspects of the route, the most important aspect being overall difficulty.
Aid climbing
Aid climbs use the grades A1 to A5 depending on the steepness of the terrain, the reliability of the gear placements, exposure, and the general experience necessary.
Free climbing
For free climbing, there are many different grading systems mostly varying according to country:
French grading system
The French grading system goes from 2 (easy) to 9 (very difficult). Usually a letter (a, b or c) augments the number. Examples: 2, 4, 4b, 6a, 7c. An optional + or - may be used to further differentiate difficulty. Many countries in Europe use a system with similar grades but not necessarilly matching difficulties!
Ewbank system
The Ewbank system, used in Australia and New Zealand, was developed in the mid 1960s by John Ewbank. (Ewbank also developed an open ended “M” system for aid climbing.) The numerical Ewbank system is open-ended, starting from 1 (a 1 in the Yosemite Decimal System) which you can (at least in theory) walk up, and currently reaching 34 (about 5.14c).While the Ewbank system was originally intended to simply grade the hardest individual move on a climb, the current practice is to take all factors into account, and the grade in modern Australian and New Zealand guidebooks makes no attempt to distinguish between different types of difficulty - strenuousness, exposure, technical difficulty, protection - simply to grade a climb as an overall experience. Thus a poorly protected and strenuous but technically easy climb with no move harder than about 14 might be graded 17, while another climb that is well-protected and offers good rests but has a couple of very difficult moves around 19 or 20 might also be a 17. The common factor is that, to safely lead either climb, you need a certain level of competence.
Yosemite Decimal System
In the USA and other parts of America the Yosemite Decimal System is used. The Grade 5 covers climbs (less then 5 is easier terrain such as scrambling and walking). Grade 5 is split into (originally 10) divisions: 5.1 5.2 ... 5.9 5.10a 5.10b ... 5.11a ... and so on. Symbols such as R and X are used to mark other features: R means runout, some protection placements may be very far apart. X means a chop route, could be extremely dangerous.
British grading system
The British grading system has two parts: the Adjectival grade and the Technical grade. Many climbs are only given an Adjectival grade, though on indoor walls the Technical grade is the one used.The Adjectival Grade attempts to assess the overall difficultly of the climb taking into account a number of factors: strenuousness, exposure, protection, length, rock quality. It has the following scale:
The Extremely Severe grade is open ended and starts at E1 and goes up E2 E3 ... currently up to about E10 (Extremely Severe was formerly abbreviated XS). Most grades at E8 and above are considered provisional because very few people will have managed the climb.
- Easy (sometimes abbreviated E but this can get confused with Extremely Severe)
- Moderate (M)
- Difficult (D, or 'Diff')
- Very Difficult (VD, or 'VDiff')
- Severe (S)
- Hard Severe(HS)
- Very Severe (VS)
- Hard Very Severe (HVS)
- Extremely Severe (E)
Some regions and/or guidebooks use a few more finely distinguised grades: Mild Very Severe (slightly easier than VS), Mild Severe, Hard Very Difficult (slightly harder than VD), Hard Difficult (slightly harder than D). The Technical Grade attempts to assess only the technical climbing difficulty of the hardest move or moves on the route without regard to the consequences of failing to do the move. Notionally technical grades start at 1a and go 1b 1c 2a 2b 2c ..., but you are unlikely to see any mention of them below 4a.
Usually the technical grade increases with the adjectival grade but hard technical move very near the ground (that is notionally safe) may not raise the standard of the adjectival grade very much. VS 4c might be a typical grade for a route. VS 4a would usually indicate very poor protection (easy moves, but no gear), VS 5b would usually indicate the crux move was the first one or very very well protected. On multipitch routes it is usual to give the overall climb an adjectival grade and each pitch a separate technical grade (such as HS 4b, 4a).
UIAA
The UIAA grading system is an ill-fated attempt at international standardization. It is used mostly in Western Germany and Austria. It used to be a scale ranging from 1 (easy) to 10 (very difficult), an optional + or - may be used to further differentiate difficulty. With harder sport routes getting climbed over the years the system steadily extends to todays topgrades of 11+/12-.
Comparison table
The following table has a basic comparison chart for (some of) the different free climbing rating systems that are in use around the world:UIAA | USA |French|Aussie| UK | Saxon |Czech | Nor | Swe |------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 | 5.2 | 1 | 10 | easy | I | | | | ------|-------|------|------|---------|-------| | | | 2 | 5.3 | 2 | 11 | m | II | | | | ------|-------|------|------|---------|-------| | | | 3 | 5.4 | 3 | 12 | d | III | | | | ------|-------|------| |---------|-------| | | | 4 | 5.5 | 4 |------| hvd | IV | | | | ------|-------| | 13 |---------|-------| | | | 5- | 5.6 |------| | ms | V | | | | ------|-------| 5 |------|---------|-------| |-----|-----| 5 | 5.7 | | 14 | 4a : s | VI | | 5- | 5- | ------| |------|------|----: |-------| |-----|-----| 5+ |-------| 5+ | 15 | 4b :vs | VIIa |------| 5 | 5 | ------| 5.8 | |------|----: | | 6 |-----|-----| 6- | | | 16 | 4c :hvs |-------|------| 5+ | 5+ | |-------| |------|----: | VIIb | 7 | | | ------| 5.9 |------| 17 | 5a : | | |-----|-----| 6 | | 6a |------| : |-------|------| 6- | 6- | ------|-------| | 18 |----: | VIIc | 7a | | | 6+ | 5.10a | |------| 5b : e1 | | |-----|-----| |-------| | 19 | : |-------|------| 6 | 6 | ------| 5.10b | 6a+ |------|----: | VIIIa | 7b | | | 7- |-------|------| 20 | 5c : | | |-----|-----| | 5.10c | 6b | | : | | | | | ------|-------| |------| : |-------|------| 6+ | 6+ | 7 | 5.10d | | 21 | : e2 | VIIIb | 7c | | | |-------| 6b+ | | : | | |-----| | ------| 5.11a |------|------| : |-------|------| 7- | | 7+ | | 6c | 22 |----: | VIIIc | | |-----| |-------| |------| 6a : | | | | 7- | ------| 5.11b | | 23 | : e3 |-------| | | | 8- |-------| 6c+ |------| : | IXa | |-----| | | 5.11c |------| 24 | : | | | 7 | | ------|-------| 7a |------| : |-------| | |-----| 8 | 5.11d | | 25 |----: e4 | IXb | |-----| 7 | |-------| | | 6b : | | | 7+ | | ------| 5.12a | |------| : |-------| | |-----| 8+ |-------| 7a+ | 26 | : | IXc | |-----| 7+ | | 5.12b |------| | : | | | 8- | | ------|-------| 7b | | : |-------| | | | 9- | 5.12c | |------| : e5 | Xa | |-----|-----| | | 7b+ | 27 |----: | | | 8 | 8- | ------|-------|------| | 6c : |-------| | | | 9 | 5.12c | 7c |------| : | Xb | | |-----| |-------| | 28 | : | | | | 8 | ------| 5.13a | |------| : e6 |-------| |-----| | 9+ |-------| 7c+ | 29 |----: | Xc | | 8+ | | | 5.13b |------|------| 7a : | | | | | ------| | 8a | 30 | : |-------| |-----|-----| 10- |-------| |------| : | | | 9- | 8+ | | 5.13c | 8a+ | 31 | : |-------| | | | ------|-------|------|------| : e7 | Xc | | |-----| 10 | 5.13d | 8b | 32 | : | | |-----| 9- | |-------| |------|----: | | | 9 | | ------| 5.14a | | 33 | 7b : | | | |-----| 10+ | | 8b+ | | : | | | | 9 | |-------|------| | : e8 | | |-----| | ------| 5.14b | 8c | | : | | | 9+ | | 11- |-------| | | : | | | |-----| | 5.14c | | | : | | |-----| 9+ | ------|-------| 8c+ | | : e9 | | | | | 11 | 5.14d |------| | : | | | |-----| |-------| 9a | | : | | | | | | | | | : e10| | | | |See also: Grade_(bouldering)
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A grade in education can mean either a teacher's evaluation of a student's work or a student's level of educational progress, usually one grade per year. This article is about evaluation of students' work.In the United States and some other countries, a grading system of A, B, C, D, and F is used. Sometimes the system is expanded to add plus or minus to each letter. It should be noted that practice can vary from this general picture by several percentage points, sometimes from teacher to teacher within the same school.
Percent Letter Points Excellent 90-100 A 4 Good 80-89 B 3 Average 70-79 C 2 Barely Passing 60-69 D 1 Fail 0-59 F 0 Teachers usually grade assignments on a percentage scale. For example, on an exam having ten questions, if a student answers eight questions correctly, the teacher will give a grade of B or 80%. At the end of the class term, the average of the percentages is calculated to determine a final grade for the class. Then the letter grades from each class are converted to points, and a grade point average or GPA is computed.
Grade Point Average
Grade point average is a number quantity representing a student's academic performance of a semester, trimester, or school year. The calculation of GPA varies from school to school, but most of the time it is some form of average of the course grades and course credits.Most high schools and colleges in the United States have a GPA range between 0 and 4. The letter grade equivalents are:
Cumulative GPA is the average of the student's GPA since entering the school. For the purposes of university admissions, GPA is sometimes weighted. This typically involves giving additional point value to advanced courses.
- A = 4
- B = 3
- C = 2
- D = 1
- F = 0
Grade inflation
The practice of schools or teachers to give a greater number of students good grades than actually deserve those grades. Grade inflation is perceived by some to be problematic for schools because it is seen as a dilution of standards.Many people harbor unquestioned notions about what traditional letter grades (US) mean in terms of student performance. For example, many people have heard of a 'C' average, but the term actually refers to a time in history, usually in a classical education setting when instructors used a strict mathematical average to determine student grades. This average used a strict bell-shaped curve. The top achieving student set the mark for the group. In that setting 7% of students would receive "A", 24% - "B", 39% - "C", 24% - "D" and 7% - "F." The spread in this system could be wide or narrow, but generally made for long examinations so a sufficient number of responses could allow instructors to divide students into the correct group. This system also fostered a large amount of competition among students as well as a strong incentive to cheat. Students who scored well on tests were generally not liked because they skewed the curve to the high end and drop outs were a problem because it left the lower scoring students fighting to stay out of the "F" group.
It would be rare in American public education, to find an instructor who still graded this way. Most teachers are left to their own devices to determine how grades will be assigned. Since teachers are a generous lot, for the most part, they'd like to see most students pass and in fact, do very well in school. It reflects on them as teachers as well as the school and the students. Therefore, the traditional grading system has gotten out of kilter and the bell-shaped curve has flattened on the high end. Some see this flattening as grade inflation (as in monetary inflation when the value of a currency goes down when there is too much script in circulation).
See also: Education by country
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In topography, the slope of a hill, mountain, road or anything else inclined, is more often refered to as its grade (or, sometimes in the US and usually in the UK, gradient). The mathematical definition of slope is generally accepted as applicable in the topographic context. However, sometimes it is not clear whether the tangent (height change ÷ horizontal distance) of the angle of inclination is meant as opposed to the sine (height change ÷ surface length) of said angle. The difference between the two is small for gentle slopes. (See Small-angle formula.) The ambiguities and the small differences that result may permit these two inconsistent approaches to coexist unrecognized, especially where all grades considered are subject to engineering upper limits of 15% or less.Many of the mathematical principles of slope, that follow from the definition, are applicable in topographic practice. Grade is usually expressed as a percentage. Expressing it as the angle from horizontal carries the same information, but may lead to confusion for readers who are not proficient in trigonometry. For instance, on hearing the same ground described as having 50% grade and also having 30 degrees inclination, one might falsely infer that a 5:3 ratio exists between the grade and the angle of inclination.
In vehicular engineering, various land-based designs (cars, SUVs, trucks, trains, etc.) are rated for their ability to "climb" the slope of terrain. (Trains typically rate much lower than cars.) The highest grade which a vehicle can ascend while maintaining a particular speed is sometimes termed that vehicle's "gradeablilty" at that speed.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grade (geography)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| gr | English | Grade | Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: GradeSynonyms: ground-level (adj), class (n), degree (n), form (n), grad (n), gradient (n), ground level (n), level (n), score (n), slope (n), tier (n), mark (v), order (v), place (v), range (v), rank (v), rate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register; (record); catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade. |
Crossing | Adverb: cross, thwart, athwart, transversely; at grade; crosswise. |
Degree | Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort. |
Learner | Class, grade, seminar, form, remove; pupilage; (learning). |
School | Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory. |
Teaching | Test, examination, exam; final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks; A,B,C,D,E,F; gentleman's C; pass, fail, incomplete. |
Term | Noun: term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | For the last week your son has been teaching twelfth grade French (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) Nobody's called me by it since third grade. (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) 'Still got my lunch money from the third grade. (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) In second grade, a guy proposed to me and besides the fact that he ate paste, he was quite a catch (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Rudy, what would you do in life if you only had a fourth grade education (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne) | |
Lyrics | Make you feel like you right back in the ninth grade (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez) You've really made the grade (Space Oddity; performing artist: David Bowie) It started way back in third grade (Check Yes Or No; performing artist: George Strait) Now that you've made the grade (California (Sue Vickers); performing artist: Manfred Mann) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dragoste la zero grade (1964) Making the Grade (1929) The Down Grade (1927) Making the Grade (1922) | |
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 | Shown is a PET scan (positron emission tomography) of a 17 year old girl with a longstanding history of epilepsy, who has a brain tumor classified as a grade 1 astrocytoma. The PET scan indicates that the tumor is not metabolizing excess glucose and is therefore benign. PET scans allow doctors to tell if a tumor is malignant without resorting to a surgical biopsy. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Grade II Goiter from iodine deficiency. Credit: CDC. |
 | Sign says 23% grade ahead White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Snow-cat negotiating small grade Arctic Field Party of Robert A. Earle. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The marsh buggy in the background is a specialized piece of equipment used to move the dredge pipe and other equipment around. The buggy is also used to grade deposited sediments to appropriate elevations. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Sugar Creek grade stabilization structure. Oklahoma. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Kickapoo Creek grade stabilization structure. Gracemont, Ok. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | Steens Mountain National Back Country Byway in the Rooster Comb grade area of Little Indian Canyon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | View of Little Indian Canyon and Ankle Mountain from Rooster Comb grade of the Steens with early snow in late fall. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | [Student teacher in primary grade using growth charts]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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 | Squash; flatten; smoosh; smash; abrade; beat down; bowl over; compress; crush; debase; deflate; depress; even out; fell; floor; flush; grade; ground; iron out; knock down; lay; lay low; level; mow down; plane; plaster; prostrate; raze; roll; smash; smooth. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Such considerations apply with added force to children in grade and high schools. (reference) |
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Health | All patients with grade 3 tumors require adjuvant therapy. (references) | |
High nuclear grade is associated with a higher rate of recurrence. (references) | ||
I was on a class trip to the Okeefenokee with all my 5th grade class. (references) | ||
Business | Grade school in Guatemala consists of six levels. (references) | |
Compulsory education extends through sixth grade. (references) | ||
The quality of Suzhou Creek water is well below Grade 5, the lowest ground water quality standard. (references) | ||
Children | Equatorial Guinea | Only 9 percent of girls finish fifth grade. (references) |
Ethiopia | Approximately 38 percent of children reach grade five. (references) | |
Iraq | Education for boys is compulsory through the sixth grade. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iraq | In December 1999, authorities banned all travel for students (including those in grade school), canceled spring and summer holidays, and enrolled students in compulsory military training and weapons-use courses. (references) |
Economic History | El Salvador | Education: Free through ninth grade. (references) |
Marshall Islands | English is introduced in the fourth grade. (references) | |
Human Rights | Liberia | The National Chief of Police ordered the arrest of the police commander who shot the fourth grade student. (references) |
Mozambique | In 1999 new standards for the police force were imposed, requiring a minimum educational level of the 10th grade. (references) | |
Liberia | On December 7 in Gbarnga, the police commander shot and killed a fourth grade boy; the police officer said the boy was a thief and announced the shooting publicly. (references) | |
Minorities | Dominican Republic | Even when permitted to attend primary school, it is rare that the children of Haitian parents progress beyond sixth grade. (references) |
Canada | Quebec's language law restricts access to publicly funded, English language schools through grade 11 to children whose parents were educated in English in Canada and to short-term residents. (references) | |
Moldova | On August 7, the Minister of Education issued a decree that Russian would be a compulsory subject starting in the second grade (it previously had been compulsory starting in the fifth grade). (references) | |
Political Economy | THAILAND | The new national education bill passed in August 1999 gives the children the right to free primary education through grade 12. (references) |
CHILE | Chile's level of public foreign debt remains low (less than one percent of GDP), and the country's sovereign bonds are considered investment grade. (references) | |
MEXICO | Moody's rated Mexican government bonds as investment grade last year, but Standard & Poors (S&P) is waiting to do so until passage of the fiscal reform law. (references) | |
Trade | Chile | Chile has consistently received investment grade BBB-rating by Moody´s and Standart & Poor´s-since 1990. Some 26 Chilean ADRs are traded on the NYSE. (references) |
Eritrea | Eritrea prohibits the import of old or used clothing, construction materials made of asbestos, ivory, second grade (denatured) alcohol, arms, weapons, and narcotics. (references) | |
Croatia | In addition to the capital contribution from the State amounting to HRK 3.7 billion, to be paid in from the State Budget in total over the next few years, HBOR seeks alternative funding from international capital markets as well as from special financial institutions such as EBRD, IBRD, CEB, EIB and KfW. . HBOR obtained an investment grade credit rating from Standard & Poor's (BBB-) and Moody's (Baa3) in line with the sovereign ceiling, based on the sound banking operations and strong institutional support from the Croatian Government. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | There is also a French school (Maternelle-Terminal/Kindergarten to 12th grade). (references) |
Luxembourg | German is the language of instruction beginning in first grade; French begins shortly thereafter. (references) | |
Pakistan | The International School of Islamabad offers a high-quality academic program through the 12th grade. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | In Karachi only 28 percent of girls completing matriculation (10th grade) exams in science during the year would be able to find places in government-run colleges, as opposed to 83 percent of boys passing the same tests. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | Chinese officials over the past few years have downgraded the use of Tibetan in education and in 1997 announced that they would begin teaching Chinese to Tibetan children starting in the first grade. (references) |
China | Rising school tuition fees and declining rural incomes discourage many rural parents from keeping their children, especially girls, in school beyond the fourth grade and make such offers more attractive. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Carol Channing | You bare your heart and soul and body to possible axe murderers, to hitmen, to crazy people, to somebody. You bear it and do it anyway. It's the only way. And I have done it since the fourth grade. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | A minister has been received from Colombia, and the other Governments have been informed that ministers, or diplomatic agents of inferior grade, would be received from each, accordingly as they might prefer the one or the other. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Where our schools challenge and support our kids and our teachers, and every one of them makes the grade, Where every street, every city, every school and every child is drug-free. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | When we promote a child from grade to grade who hasn't mastered the work, we don't do that child any favors. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We want to make sure every child learns to read by the third grade. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Grade" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.17% of the time. "Grade" is used about 1,814 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.17% | 1,581 | 5,228 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.39% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.36% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.08% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,814 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "grade" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grade | Last name | 170 | 51,581 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "grade": At grade ♦ below grade ♦ change of grade ♦ Down grade ♦ first grade ♦ fuel grade ♦ grade chevron ♦ grade crossing ♦ grade down ♦ grade insignia ♦ grade oil ♦ grade school ♦ grade separation ♦ grade up ♦ high grade ♦ instructor grade ♦ job grade ♦ labor grade ♦ lieutenant junior grade ♦ lieutenant senior grade ♦ loose grade bananas ♦ lower grade ♦ make the grade ♦ military grade ♦ noise grade ♦ non premium grade gasoline ♦ ordinary grade ♦ penetration grade asphalt ♦ regular grade gasoline ♦ regular grade petrol ♦ special grade network trunk ♦ speculative grade paper ♦ the thermometer reads 30 grade ♦ top grade borrower ♦ up grade ♦ up to grade ♦ upwards grade ♦ voice grade band. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "grade": grade-a, Grade-b, grade-based, grade-constructed, Grade-i-listed, grade-iv, grade-level, grade-one, grade-related, grade-school teacher, grade-separated. | |
Ending with "grade": bomb-grade, commercial-grade, down-grade, first-grade, investment-grade, lower-grade, second-grade, top-grade, up-grade, weapon-grade, weapons-grade. | |
Containing "grade": field-grade officer, high-grade lymphomas, high-grade petrol, intermediate-grade lymphomas, low-grade lymphomas, middle-grade management. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
grade | 687 | 8th grade math | 88 |
8th grade | 640 | second grade | 87 |
grade point average | 220 | 6th grade | 86 |
grade book | 209 | second grade math | 85 |
grade school | 182 | 2nd grade math | 80 |
first grade | 182 | diamond grade | 79 |
grade 8 | 180 | military pay grade | 78 |
5th grade math | 146 | third grade | 76 |
6th grade math | 145 | first grade lesson plan | 71 |
grade kiddy | 144 | fifth grade math | 71 |
7th grade math | 137 | fourth grade math | 71 |
4th grade math | 132 | 2003 draft grade nba | 68 |
florida school grade | 116 | 5th grade | 66 |
7th grade | 110 | 9th grade | 63 |
first grade math | 107 | 4th grade | 63 |
grade saver | 104 | 1st grade | 62 |
3rd grade math | 103 | sixth grade math | 60 |
third grade math | 103 | pharmaceutical grade fish oil | 56 |
first grade worksheets | 93 | 1st grade worksheets | 54 |
low grade fever | 89 | fcat grade school | 53 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "grade"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | graad (degree, heading, title). (various references) | |
Albanian | gradë (degree, level, notch, rank, rating, stripe, thermometer), vit (summer, twelvemonth, year), shkallë (accommodation ladder, caliber, calibre, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, ladder, level, measure, notch, peg, phase, pitch, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), pjerrësie, përmirësoj (ameliorate, amend, better, cultivate, elevate, enrich, improve, meliorate, mend, polish, reclaim, refine, reform, strengthen, upgrade), notë (diplomatic note, guide mark, harmonic, key, Mark, memorandum, music, musical note, note, overtone, rate, rating, ratio), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), klasifikoj (assort, categorize, classify, digest, distinguish, distribute, group, label, range, rank, rate, separate, sort, sort out, type), klasë (class, classroom, form, genus, kind, league, rate, rating, ratio, run, schoolroom), kategori (category, class, denomination, group, league, rank, rate, run), kalibër (bore, caliber, calibre, gauge, groove, size), fazë (cycle, leg, phase, stage, timing). (various references) | |
Arabic | سلم الراتب, درجة (class, degree, echelon, league, point, proportion, stage, stair, tier), رتبة, إحتل درجة, صف (alignment, bank, classroom, course, cue, delineate, lane, line, lineup, queue, range, rank, row, schoolroom, tier), صف مدرسي (class, form, schoolroom), صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), درج (calibrate, code, graduate, include, insert, inset, locker, scale, slot, staircase, stairs, step, stud, toddle), طريق متحدر, فئة (category, class, denomination, division, group, rate), تدرج (gradate, gradation, graduate, graduation, progression, scale, shade), نوعية, مرتبة (degree, mattress, rank, standing, status), مرحلة (degree, juncture, lap, period, phase, point, stage, step), مستوى (level, plane, scale, standard), منزلة (class, degree, dignity, order, rank, standing, stature, status), مهد (bed, cradle, even, flat, flatten, level, pave, plane, roll, smooth), صنف الثمار. (various references) | |
Asturian | grau. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | категория (bracket, breed, category, class, division, league, notion, pigeonhole, rank, rate, rating, sort, stripe, value), първоначален (autochthonal, elementary, initial, original, primary, prime, primordial), бележка за успех, нивелирам (level), наклон (batter, bevel, bias, declension, declivity, dip, fall, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, inflection, inflexion, lean, leaning, low-grade, rake, ramp, rise, skew, slant, slope, throw, tilt, versant), основен (abecedarian, alkali, alkaline, basal, basic, bottom, capital, essential, fundamental, general, gut, key, key note, main, organic, pivotal, polar, primal, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, tonic, ultimate, underlying), вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genre, genus, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, sort, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view), клас (clan, class, classification, ear, form, group, notion, range, rating), преливам се (blend), класа (bracket, breed, circle, class, genus, league, order, race, rank, rate, standing, state, stratum), степенувам (graduate), качество (brand, capacity, class, degree, fabric, kind, merit, point, quality, rate, stamp, tap), кръстоска (crossbreed), разред (caliber, category, order, range, rank, rate), ранг (order, place, precedence, rank, rating, siege, state, status), сорт (breed, class, degree, description, genus, kind, nature, order, persuasion, rate, sort, species, strain, style, tap, variety), сортирам (assort, class, jig, range, screen, separate, size, sort), степен (degree, exponent, extent, gra |
