“I thought being smart was cooler than anything in the world.”
Posted on 07/07/2016 5:10:17 AM PDT by simpson96
TEENAGE girls are hard to impress. Unless you are Michelle Obama, that is. In 2009, on her first foreign trip as First Lady, Mrs Obama visited Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, a London state (or public) school for girls, about three-quarters of whom are eligible for free school meals. She told a star-struck assembly that she also came from humble origins, explaining how she worked her way from a poor part of Chicago to the Ivy League, a top law firm and (with help from Barack) the White House. “I’m standing here…because of education,” Mrs Obama said. “I thought being smart was cooler than anything in the world.” And unlike many luminaries asked to rouse pupils, the First Lady kept in touch. Mrs Obama invited the girls to see her again in 2011 when she visited Oxford University. There, she told pupils: “All of us believe that you belong here.” One year later a dozen pupils flew over to the White House.
Her message seems to have worked. In a paper published on July 1st, Simon Burgess, an economist at the University of Bristol, analysed the school’s exam results in the years after Mrs Obama’s visits. The 15- or 16-year-olds sitting their GCSEs did much better than girls in the previous year.(snip)
It is impossible to prove that Mrs Obama caused the improvement in results. The class of 2012 may have been unusually bright. There may have been a change of teachers. Perhaps it was a fluke. But Mr Burgess thinks not. After controlling for such possibilities and looking at the size of the increase, he concludes: “[The effect] was extremely unlikely to have been generated just by chance.”
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
“I thought being smart was cooler than anything in the world.”
What??? - are they going to tell us NEXT that she turns water to wine, raises the dead and heals the sick?!!
Wouldn’t surprise me if they did.
This article is about students who never met Mrs Dunham nor have ever heard of her...
Meanwhile the girls she actually talked to, what happened to them ???
What are or were their grades in college ???
what are they doing now ??? Job wise ??? Life wise ???
Why did they wait so long to write this, were they waiting for a “smart” group ???
no she just walks on that water...
(Who’d want to drink it after her grubby feet have dabbled in it ???)
And my hubby loved his coke.....no...not the one that comes in a bottle.
Do you like my $600 shoes?
It will take time for legends to develop around our psychopaths
And they called BO the “magic Negro” - little did they know . . .
Reading this helps with regularity.
Seriously.
Alternate title: Reporters prove (again) they are incredibly gullible.
Less flattering alternate title: MSM Sucks Up Shamelessly
The Economist is such a kiss ass liberal rag - it’s not even fit for a bird cage.
Remember when America's First Lady was actually a lady?
This creature can't even dress herself properly.
LOL. Another Obama miracle! Hallelujah!
Being intelligent and being educated are two different things
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