Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack, the organizers said, will be directed at psychologists and sociologists who claim that blacks are genetically inferior to whites, and at the White House and liberals who, they say, are destroying free schools and experimental schools like New York's Harlem Prep...
Andover appeared headed for victory early in the final quarter. The prep school team pressured the Harvard goal until, with ten minutes left, its momentum subsided. Two minutes later, Harvard's Mike Lohrer centered a pass in front of the Andover net, and Rob Grant booted it in for the gamewinner...
Norwalk seemed an excellent candidate: good prep school, good grades, articulate conversation, and most of all an intense interest in American history that seemed perfectly fitted to the purposes of his intended major...
...school could take no new applicants, students set out with tin cans to seek donations from the neighborhood. It was a futile gesture (previous drives have raised merely 5% of the school's expenses). The only solution, apparently, lies in the public school system to which Harlem Prep was supposed to provide an alternative...
...Harlem Prep survives, after negotiations with the board, there will undoubtedly be changes. Only three of the school's 19 teachers have New York City certification, for example. Carpenter himself lacks the administrative credentials required for principals. If the standard public school rules are applied to Harlem Prep, security guards will patrol the halls, absent students will be considered delinquent, and anyone over 21 can be barred (Harlem Prep has taken students as old as 28). While board spokesmen have said that they are sensitive to the spirit of Harlem Prep, one official has already suggested that it might...