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The Opinion contributing writer Megan Stack has a gift for high school graduates who struggled academically or who feel like life is passing them by. In this audio essay, Stack lays out an optimistic vision for the late bloomers and poor performers, arguing that this stage of life doesn’t have to define a person’s future and that there are many paths to happiness and success. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publication in the audio player above.)

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☆ Girls Thrive in Many Sports. Now They’re Coming for Football, Too.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Claire Fahy | More About Claire Fahy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Honesty Butler was not planning to go to college, let alone leave her home state of New York. Art school was too expensive, so she began to give up on the idea of higher education entirely. Butler had never played a team sport, beyond a brief stint on the track team, but from the first practice, she was hooked. requirement, so Butler was suddenly motivated to keep her grades up — even in math. Now, Butler, 19, is more than 1,200 miles from home in Fort Scott, Kan., where she is preparing for her second season playing collegiate flag football at Fort Scott Community College.

Persons: Butler, Kan Organizations: Binghamton High School, New, New York State, Fort Scott Community College Locations: New York, Fort Scott

☆ Opinion | On Race and Academia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But I have always thought of that as racial preferences the way they should have been, merely additive around the margins. I was hired straight out of my doctoral program for a tenure-track job at an Ivy League university in its august linguistics department. Plus, I was brought on to represent a subfield within linguistics — sociolinguistics — that has never been my actual specialty. At the time I was not very politicized, and I assumed that my race had merely been a background bonus to help me get hired. I had been hired by white people who, quite innocently, thought they were doing the right thing by bringing a Black person onto the faculty.

Organizations: Ivy League university

☆ The ‘Unseen’ Students in the Affirmative Action Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Sarah Mervosh | Troy Closson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At Memorial Pathway Academy, a high school for at-risk students and new immigrants in Garland, Texas, more than 80 percent of students get a job after graduation. Nationally, nearly 40 percent of high school graduates do not immediately enroll in college. That represents about 2 percent of all Black, Hispanic or Native American students in four-year colleges. The affirmative action decision could still have broader ripple effects. Some experts worry it will send a message to Black and Hispanic students that they are not wanted on college campuses, or push them to more troubled schools, like for-profit institutions.

Persons: ’ ”, Ramos, ”, Josh Tovar, doesn’t, —, Grandma, Sean Reardon Organizations: ‘, New York State, Pathway Academy, ”, Stanford University Locations: ’, New York, Garland , Texas

So these elite places become these little islands where rich people pass down their advantages to their kids. Like everyone else, by today’s standards, I wouldn’t qualify for any of the elite schools. And yet in those days, the University of Chicago, where I ended up going, admitted 70 percent of the applicants. The process is not only divisive but doesn’t give people later in life a fair chance to alter the trajectory of their life. They should look at their grades, they should look at their test scores, but they should also look at their resilience.

Persons: We’ve, I’ve, Richard Kahlenberg, he’s Organizations: University of Chicago, Harvard, University of North Locations: Philadelphia, West Virginia, New Orleans, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Manhattan, University of North Carolina

☆ Alex Bodi, arestat pentru trafic de persoane. Ce rol avea fostul soţ al Biancăi Drăguşanu în reţeaua de proxeneţi a „naşului” Adrian Tâmplaru - REFERAT
▼ + stars: | 2015-01-16 | by ( Ionuţ Mureşan | ) adevarul.ro time to read: +5 min

Alex Bodi a fost arestat preventiv de Tribunalul Dolj pentru constituire de grup infracţional organizat, trafic de persoane şi proxenetism. În acest caz, procurorii DIICOT au colaborat cu autorităţile din Germania pentru documentarea activităţii infracţionale, iar Alex Bodi a fost filat de către poliţiştii germani. (Alex Bodi - n.r. Alex Bodi, filat de poliţiştii germani în zona bordelurilorAutorităţile din Germania l-au urmărit pe Alex Bodi şi l-au identificat pe o autostradă, în timp ce se deplasa în direcţia Passau. La sediul DIICOT din Craiova au fost aduse pentru audieri 18 persoane, printre care şi Alex Bodi, fostul soţ al Biancăi Drăguşanu.

Persons: Alex Bodi, filat, Bianca, B.A.N, Alex, T.C.A, XXX, poliţiştii, Bodi, Adrian, Adrian Tâmplaru, Ion Clămparu, infractorii Organizations: DIICOT, G.P.A Locations: Germania, germani, Europei, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg - Germania, Passau, XXX, Landshut, Hamburg, ., străinătate, cămătarii, Craiova, România, Ilfov, Braşov, Dolj, Gorj, Giurgiu, Olt, Sibiu, Vâlcea, Spania, Italia, Elveţia

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