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About Deshaun, Hoyes said, "He was extremely focused and a straight-A student, but he never talked about how much work he had to do. When you were with him, he was with you because he focused on nothing else. He was my academic inspiration as well as my brother...
...less rigor." Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from the front. Not long ago, Jennings watched her daughter Sarah, a straight-A algebra student, reach for a calculator to find 10% of 470. "It made my blood boil," says Jennings. In response, she and other parents pressured the school district to offer traditional math as a choice...
...women should not be too quick to abandon Faulkner because she is not the perfect poster-cadet, or because misogyny is ebbing, or because the work of integrating all-male institutions is over. At the Air Force Academy, cadet Elizabeth Saum, a champion diver and straight-A student, was forced to take medical leave after playing the POW in a survival-training course. Saum says she was confined with a hood over her head and no food or sleep for two days, splattered with urine, and climbed on by a male cadet who forced her knees apart and simulated raping...
Jagsi is a straight-A student who plans to attend Harvard Medical School this fall after spending the summer at the White House as a health policy intern...
Everyone who supports Gina Grant keeps talking about how she has served her time and rehabilitated herself. For the record, we should remember that Grant was a straight-A student before the murders too. Her excellent record before her crime is part of what made the community then rally around...