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...drivers, at least in recent years, has been Teach For America, which recruits top college graduates for two-year stints in high-need communities. Indeed, TFA alumni are responsible for some of the nation’s most successful school networks, including the Knowledge Is Power Program and YES Prep Public Schools...
Fitzsimmons also pointed to an unintended side effect of excessive test prep...
...Sometimes they spend so much effort and time on test prep that they lose the other parts of their lives and ironically turn out to be worse college candidates and less prepared for college overall,” he said...
...eliminated, finishing 22nd. Cross made it to the round of 32 in the foil before succumbing to nerves and posting a 17th-place finish.“I think I was definitely overwhelmed,” Cross said. “There’s some kind of mental prep that you need, because there’s just so much at stake, you put so much of your life on hold for it. It was hard for me, I completely psyched myself out.”Unlike Mills, however, Cross received the chance to redeem herself in the team...
Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was distinguished by the dead-on observations of upper-class life by a working-class narrator--a narrator, one imagines, not unlike Sittenfeld herself, who was jolted from Cincinnati to the rarefied precincts of the Groton School in Massachusetts. There is a similar class consciousness in American Wife, especially in the luscious passages in which Alice describes her first encounters with the Blackwell family at its summer estate, Halcyon, on Lake Michigan. The Blackwells are overwhelming, especially the materfamilias, known as Maj (short for "Her Majesty"). They are classic inbred Wasps, fetishizers of the threadbare...