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Your stories about teaching make me even more concerned for the young woman I tutor who is a junior at a charter school. From what she tells me, it sounds like her school does a better job than Anacostia but I continue to worry about her low level of reading ability.  They keep taking her and the other students on college visits, creating expectations that she, too, will go to college.  When she applies herself, she does get decent grades so it's conceivable she could get into college but I know she can't read well enough to survive college. She's a good kid who, except for some typical adolescent stuff, is pretty responsible.  Chances are good she will graduate from high school but I worry a lot about what will happen to her when she graduates.  I'm not confident that anyone is really preparing her for life after high school.  Your stories about being pressured to hand out good grades are not helping my anxiety![/quote]
Paul Tough in his most recent book, How Children Succeed has a chapter on a program in Chicago that helps kids that are scoring in the bottom 20% of the SAT that are trying to go to college.  It maybe worth sharing that chapter because the girl he profiles is definately not an obvious candidate for college, but does develop some strategies that help her succeed intially, she had not finish college yet, when he finished the book, so you don't know if it is enough. [/quote]Pp here. Thanks! I've read that book already and it gave me hope that there was some way that I could help my student. I thought it was a great book - useful for any parent who wants to know how to help their kid in school.[/quote]

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