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Hendrickson is the author of Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
...numbers vary by race...
...plan also needs to be more explicit about what should happen to persistently failing schools. While the $4 billion federal Race to the Top competition, which began in 2009, gives states incentives to close schools after all other strategies to improve achievement have failed, Obama's new proposal is more ambiguous. It will permit states to shy away from making these tough choices--even though replacing failing schools can transform entire districts. In New York City, we've phased out more than 90 schools during the past seven years; these decisions haven't been politically popular, but the schools that...
...really happy with [the race],” Meyer said, “It was my first time under 15 minutes, and I dropped about seven seconds from my time at [the Ivy League Championships] a few weeks...
...hang on,’” Meyer explained. “I went out four or five seconds faster than I usually do in the first 500 [yards]. I could feel the difference. I was hurting pretty bad at the back end of the race...