Sept. 18th, 2008
"...Jessica's English scores were in the 16th percentile when she arrived as a fifth-grader -- meaning that 84 percent of the nation's fifth-graders did better in English that she did. 'At the end of the year, I was in the 75th percentile,' she said.
How did that happen?
'Because I'm smart,' Jessica said...."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/18/BA6H12VQKQ.DTL&hw=KIPP&sn=001&sc=1000
