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Defying history and stereotype, the south's schools rise: Hundreds of high schools in the region, many still under desegregation orders, have quietly become public-education powerhouses.

Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Patrik Jonsson
QUOTE: This year, the top five schools in Newsweek's ranking of US public high schools are below the Mason-Dixon line. While Vermont's homogenous schools are ranked the "smartest," according to Morgan Quitno Press, top-performing schools in the South – from Enloe High School in Raleigh, N.C., to Suncoast Community in Riviera Beach, Fla. – have risen against the odds, teaching racially diverse and, often, poor students who, research shows, come to school less prepared than white students.

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