You can tell the difference between students admitted purely on their scores and those helped by their race. ... Jeb Bush adopted a new law stating that school districts will no longer be able to use race as a factor in deciding which students can participate in gifted programs. ... A way out of the recent epidemic of low academic achievement and noncompetitive SAT scores due to affirmative action admissions policies is to raise academic standards and maintain a high quality curriculum and instructional program at the elementary and secondary school levels. ... The proportions of kids who sc...

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I've developed a new appreciation for literacy that would have totally redefined my learning experience during grade school had I made this realization earlier. ... As my seven-year-old self sat around a bright blue table amongst other first graders racing to solve simple math problems of addition and subtraction in order to win pieces of candy, literacy was being instilled in my unaware brain. ... At Sashabaw Middle School I was building on the base literary skills I had developed at Pine Knob, at this point my motivation behind attempting to receive good grades was more personal, getti...

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