I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.