They are decent players and like challenging courses, but they wanted to carry their bags or use a pull cart.
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In Cherry Hill, officials have encouraged more minority students to take challenging courses, although the achievement gap has not significantly narrowed.
Rather than dumbing down "hard" courses, so that everyone picks up a smattering of knowledge they will never use, universities should offer challenging courses in students' majors.
Danielle, who will attend M.I.T. this fall, said she chose challenging courses and pushed herself because she wasn't sure what she ultimately wanted to do.
"Our position, in a nutshell, is that the best way to prepare for the test is to take a rigorous curriculum and challenging courses," says Kristin Carnahan, a spokeswoman.
Yet readers also want to know if a student has taken challenging courses, and will consider A.P.'s along with key college-prep subjects, known as a-g courses, required by the U.C. system.
When he first spoke about the English baccalaureate last September, Michael Gove, the education secretary, said it would "dramatically strengthen the position of core academic subjects in our schools, and stop the shift to less challenging courses driven by the current perverse accountability system".
But the proposed delay is likely to draw criticism from advocates of high standards who argue that the tests have forced schools to abandon a system that reserved challenging courses for a few students and consigned others to a second-class education.
The Paris-based Organizathat for Economic Cooperation and Development indicated that girls from industrialized countries have better grades in math and science and tended to take more academically challenging courses than boys.
The film just points out that they have less time to take challenging courses and tend to come from more impoverished backgrounds.
