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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#003399'>Which proves how pivotal high school can be with refining these skills. Perhaps that would help decrease high dropout rate among college students. High schools are getting them there, but there is a lapse in the system after that point.</span><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#003399'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'>Edward A. Hawks, III, M.Ed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'>Gifted Intervention Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'><hr size=5 width=506 style='width:271.9pt' noshade style='color:black' align=left></span></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'><img width=202 height=95 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01CD76EC.652363F0" alt="Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\Users\Edward A. Hawks III\Desktop\GT Logo (PNG Format-2012).png"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'><hr size=5 width=507 style='width:272.4pt' noshade style='color:#C00000' align=left></span></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'>What he seemed, he was—a wholly human gentleman, the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'>essential elements of whose positive character were two and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'>only two, simplicity and spirituality.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#003399'>(Douglas Southall Freeman on Robert E. Lee)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#003399'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Fitzhugh<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 10, 2012 11:25 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Ohiogift] Writing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>“The single biggest complaint from college teachers and employers is that </span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>high school graduates cannot write as well as they need to.”</span></i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>Marc Tucker, President, NCEE</span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>on August 9, 2012 2:14 PM</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-----------------------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><br></span></b><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>“Teach by Example”</span></b></span><span style='font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>Will Fitzhugh [founder]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>The Concord Review</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'> [1987]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>Ralph Waldo Emerson Prizes [1995]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>National Writing Board [1998]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>TCR Institute [2002]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>730 Boston Post Road, Suite 24<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776-3371 USA<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>978-443-0022; 800-331-5007<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif";color:#3863BB'><a href="http://www.tcr.org/">www.tcr.org</a></span></u><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif";color:black'>; <a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif";color:#150F85'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>Varsity Academics®<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Palatino","serif"'><a href="http://www.tcr.org/blog">www.tcr.org/blog</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>