What evidence supports the author's argument that after-
school programs keep kids in school?
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schools are getting rid of music and art programs
because of tough budget cuts.
school boards that cut funding for all after-school
programs make a big mistake.
the graduation rate for schools with after-school
programs is sixty-five percent higher.
the author and his or her friends are working hard to
keep after-school programs in place.
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Choose the correct form of word to complete the sentence. candies-candy's-candys effects on children's teeth is unfortunate.

Why do you think both wiesel and solzhenitsyn speak of the importance of telling the truth?

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.