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Black Students Believe Hard Work Reaps Success, Study Says.(Horatio Alger Association report)(Brief Article)

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From: Jet
Date: 19990830
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A large majority of Black high school students believe that hard work, indeed, pays off with greater opportunities for success, finds a recent study by the Horatio Alger Association reported in the Richmond Times Dispatch.

The non-profit educational group, which interviewed more than 1,200 high school students from diverse ethnic, social and economic backgrounds across the country, found that while a majority of the students put faith in the ideal that a diligent work ethic reaps success, the figure was significantly higher among Black students, the newspaper reports.

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