Word: parkes
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Tariq A. Ramsey is a senior at Madison Park vocational high school in Boston who specializes in electricity—when he’s not poring over his classwork...
...With students staffing the café, working on the ventilation and heating systems, and providing auto-body repair for each other’s cars, Madison Park seems almost wholly student-run. All the students receive both vocational and academic training...
...Admission Scholars—a tutoring program staffed by Harvard students—has been providing this support to Ramsey and other students at Madison Park since the program’s inception two years...
...Both students and administrators at Madison Park praised the group for making college less intimidating and for its positive impact in helping students on their path to college...
...results were immediate. I started knocking 10,000-word cover stories out of the park like they were baseball game summaries. Slick word combinations were jumping off my keyboard. I could stretch a one-pager into a double truck with ease. Man, I was feeling it. But so were some of my colleagues. Roid rage. It's as ugly in the newsroom as it is in the locker room. One night, I almost took a copy editor's head off for questioning my use of antecedents. My boss had to know, but he steered clear. That's how they...