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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1.  SAT scores in DCPS schools are nothing to brag about across the board.   SWW & Banneker do OK, but they are among the weakest test-in schools in the nation.  Look at the stats on Newsweek's "Best American High Schools" list if you doubt this.

I'm a Russian immigrant who arrived at age 12 yet scored 720 no the verbal section of the SAT, 790 on the math, in a struggling urban public school.  Very few of my American classmates seemed to read classics for pleasure, as many high school students do in Russia.  [b]Kids who don't read quality literature for fun on a regular basis invariably don't do very well on the SAT verbal section.[/b]  Teachers and test prep can only do so much.

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The bolded statement is not true in my experience.  I loved reading for fun but my brother who never read a book (use to makeup book reports on books that did not exist!) only magazines went to Johns Hopkins at 14, scored 650 verbal and 790 math when he was 12 yrs old.  Asian immigrants - our parents never really emphasized reading books, let us watch hours and hours of TV, never did enrichment activities and we could do whatever as long as we brought home As which is true for most Asian families I know.  The rest of my sibs and I all attended Ivies.[/quote]

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