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  2. We need to stop asking kids what they want to be when they ...

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    Rarely did my 18, 19, and 20-year-old students home in on their forever future at those ages. They simply didn't have the life experience, self-awareness, and maturity to make such a major decision.

  3. Academic achievement - Wikipedia

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    Academic achievement or academic performance is the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals. Completion of educational benchmarks such as secondary school diplomas and bachelor's degrees represent academic achievement.

  4. United States Academic Decathlon - Wikipedia

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    The competition consists of seven objective multiple choice tests, two subjective performance events, and an essay. Academic Decathlon was created by Robert Peterson in 1968 for local schools in Orange County, California , and was expanded nationally in 1981 by Robert Peterson, William Patton, first President of the new USAD Board; and Phillip ...

  5. FSU Young Scholars Program - Wikipedia

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    YSP admits students who have completed the eleventh grade in a Florida public or private high school. A few exceptionally qualified and mature tenth graders have been selected in past years, though this is quite rare. All applicants must have completed pre-calculus and maintain at least a 3.0 unweighted GPA to be

  6. Seven Reasons Not to Send Your Kids to College

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  7. College admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Graduates from a high school in Connecticut in 2008. College admissions in the United States is the process of applying for undergraduate study at colleges or universities. [1] For students entering college directly after high school, the process typically begins in eleventh grade, with most applications submitted during twelfth grade. [2]

  8. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Below is the grading system found to be most commonly used in United States public high schools, according to the 2009 High School Transcript Study. [2] This is the most used grading system; however, there are some schools that use an edited version of the college system, which means 89.5 or above becomes an A average, 79.5 becomes a B, and so on.

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    Image credits: pandathrowaway #8. You see, I had really bad handwriting as a kid. Like really really bad handwriting. My teachers in general had a hard time trying to mark my homework, and there ...