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...students in New York City's Catholic schools consistently outscore its 1.1 million public school kids on tests of math and reading skills, according to a New York University study. The Catholic schools' lead in test scores, while slight in the fourth grade, was "dramatic" by the eighth grade. That lead was evident even when Catholic and public schools serving poor neighborhoods and minority students were compared. And the Catholic schools spend about half as much per pupil as the public schools...
...can’t pinpoint when it happened, but somewhere between sixth and eighth grade I started hanging out with the 10 other white kids in my 200-person middle school class. My school, two blocks from my house, was over 50 percent Hispanic...
Maybe it was self-defense, maybe it was common values, maybe it was the fact that my clothes didn’t hang right and my hair didn’t rat, but by the beginning of eighth grade I hung out almost exclusively with kids who had the same hair as I did, the same fair skin (my sixth grade friends called me Rudolph because of my perpetually sunburned nose) and the same-sounding last names...
Carter later atoned for his costly fielding miscue, blasting a solo homer in the sixth and lacing an RBI single in the eighth to tie the game...
...following game against SMS, Koppel put Harvard up early with a two-run blast. SMS tied the game then took the lead in the eighth, but Harvard came back, scoring on sacrifices in the eighth and ninth for another...