The week's good news: July 26, 2018

It wasn't all bad!

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1. Teacher's entire calculus class aces AP test — for the 4th year in a row

Iswari Natarajan gets an A+ when it comes to preparing her students. Natarajan teaches calculus at St. Mary's Academy, an all-girls high school in Englewood, Colorado. Over the last four years, every single one of her students has received a five on the Advanced Placement test, the highest score possible. Natarajan said she focuses on building their confidence, making sure they don't feel pressured. "We are here to learn calculus, and having fun along the way was most important," she told CBS Denver. The scores for this year came out this month, and "I did a double take to see every student got a five," Natarajan said. Students can receive college credit for taking AP tests, and Anna Jonsen said that without Natarajan, she doesn't know how she would have done. "She got us here," Jonsen said.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.