1.   Nor do they reward young people who take harder courses or earn higher grades.

2.   At a news conference in Chicago, Vice President Al Gore said the administration has earned good grades in education.

3.   All have been banned from returning to Gilbert high schools, where most earned good grades and played prep sports.

4.   But Florida schools in similar depths of poverty have earned passing grades.

5.   But some groups earn higher grades and have better academic records than others.

6.   Flores earned good grades at the community college, but still, when he transferred to ASU, there were doubts.

7.   He also found that those who went on the trip earned higher grades.

8.   He worked after school for an electrical contracting firm, had no steady girlfriend, and had to work hard to earn decent grades.

9.   His mother, who went to college to become a nurse, pushed her son to stay in school, earn good grades and respect adults.

10.   If a mutual fund earns a high grade from Morningstar, the fund company features the rating prominently in its advertising.