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Some educators also fear that SAT prep will move from helping students improve their vocabulary to teaching them how to scribble hasty compositions in 25 or 30 minutes (the College Board hasn't settled on an essay time limit). "I'd hate to see all our English teachers begin to teach a formulaic style of writing to prepare students for this particular test," says college adviser Alice Kleeman of Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, Calif. "Adjustments might have to be made so that students can practice the type of essays expected on the SAT while reinforcing the idea that...
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Born to an aristocratic New York family on March 18, 1927, Plimpton attended the elite prep school Phillips Exeter Academy...
...weeks before the pageant, Redd went on the NPR radio show “OnPoint” to explain how she reconciles her Miss America involvement with her feminism. According to Redd, Diane Rosenfeld, a lecturer on women’s studies, helped her prep for the interview, “getting out of pageant mode and back into academic mode,” as she puts...
...know we've changed when we see a show called Straight Eye for the Gay Guy. In it a group of heterosexual men prep a gay man for the night he asks his boyfriend to marry him. When the boyfriend says yes, the straight guys cheer, and the gay guy chokes up. That will be the day gay people are no longer ornaments or accessories or objects of either derision or compassion. That will be the day gay people will finally have the description we have been seeking for so long: human beings...