Word: preps
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...Rosemont Elementary School in Baltimore, college prep begins early. How early? Starting in prekindergarten, students take some of their lessons from tenured university faculty. Undergraduates serve as teachers' aides, and kids spend their summer vacations studying on the campus of a nearby college. When students graduate from the fifth grade, they get a handshake and a diploma from a university president. So it was understandable that when a visitor recently toured the school, a bespectacled third-grader asked, "Excuse me, Miss? Are you a professor...
...mechanisms whereby the right people learn about it." Others point out that parents must play a role too - by checking out a college's psychological services in advance and by not putting too much pressure on kids. Says Ed Hu, college counselor at Harvard-Westlake, a Los Angeles prep school: "They're just pushing their kids, causing the stress, not aware of the toll...
...Rosemont Elementary School in Baltimore, college prep begins early. How early? Starting in prekindergarten, students take some of their lessons from tenured university faculty. Undergraduates serve as teachers' aides, and kids spend their summer vacations studying on the campus of a nearby college. When students graduate from the fifth grade, they get a handshake and a diploma from a university president. So it was understandable that when a visitor recently toured the school, a bespectacled third-grader asked, "Excuse me, Miss? Are you a professor...
...real judicial drama was right in front of us. It was a perfect ending to Postelection 2000, in which a creaky 18th century legal-political process ran smack against the more!-faster!-now! demands of 21st century media. Fast news, like fast food, requires prep work, and modern journalists have grown accustomed to pre-leaked and -summarized stories, the better to plan coverage and scare up file video. But like the DMV, the Supreme Court doesn't consider lack of patience on your part an emergency on its part. Without explanation, it delivered to the media a President wrapped...
...first stood out for his voice. As a boy, Thomas Penfield Jackson won a choir scholarship to St. Albans prep school that he lost when his voice changed. But he became a lawyer, then a judge, distinguished by his booming baritone. He had tried high-profile cases (like Washington Mayor Marion Barry's) but was little known until he became Bill Gates' bete noire. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial could be gruff ("You are not planning to totally rearrange my room, are you?" he asked our photographer) but was known as open-minded and moderate. His thunderbolt rulings...