Making the grade
Posted: October 20, 2009 at 4:41 a.m.
“Why don’t you guys study like the kids from Africa?” In a moment of exasperation last spring, I asked that question to a virtually all-black class of 12th-graders who had done horribly on a test I had just given.
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Editorial, Pages 14 on 10/20/2009
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