"Patrick Phillips" is an American poet, professor, and translator. His most recent poetry collection is Boy. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's Almanac on National Public Radio. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen, and teaches writing and literature at Drew University. Patrick Phillips grew up in Gainesville, Georgia/Gainesville, Georgia (U.S. state)/Georgia, and now lives in New York City.

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Our congressional delegation has worked hard with the Department of Education to build flexibility into the rules.

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I think the notion of college readiness as a goal for increasing numbers of our students ... is going to become increasingly important.

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If our young people are going to stand a chance they are going to need to be academically prepared for that kind of world.

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