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Power said that like many of the “overachievers?? in the crowd, as a child she, too, was eager to make a name for herself. In fact, as a five-year-old, she took the liberty of scrawling “Samantha Power did this” in orange crayon atop her mother’s newly printed, 300-plus page doctoral dissertation, she recalled...
Although each nice day sporadically spaced amidst rain and cool weather might make us wonder what we’re missing, the weather at Harvard is really the best thing for us. October through April showers bring perfect overachievers??along with May flowers...
...makes one wonder if he is committed—or if he thinks it’s possible—to close that first, nagging gap. At one point during the book, Wagner reduces the complexity of the achievement gap to a simple dichotomy between the “Overachievers?? and the “Unengaged.” And two of the three schools that Wagner cites as successful examples of teaching our children the survival skills he says they need are charter schools. It is hard to imagine how the lessons that work in schools...
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