Thing #7b - Google Reader update

Well TAKS is next week and all year our campus has been looking for ways to improve our minority students' scores. Here is an interesting story that finds that an affirmation exercise improved the grades of African-American middle school students, and the effects lasted for at least another two years after the test period. Pretty interesting! It makes me want to do something like this... ;-) I retrieved this from the podcast RSS that I subscribed to in "thing 17".