Word: preps
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Opponents of the test will rally Monday at the State House to present legislators with an anti-MCAS petition and protest the length and format of the exam, which they say narrows curriculum and turns schooling into an massive MCAS test-prep exercise...
...reports of some fast-food restaurants also extending benefits to workers, including part-timers, who did not get them before. And wage hikes are cropping up in other places. Tony Vallone, owner of six upscale restaurants in Houston, was paying only minimum wage to his dishwashers and kitchen-prep workers 18 months ago. Now the dishwashers get an extra $2 an hour and the prep people $3 extra--and they all share in a 401(k) investment plan that was formerly limited to higher-paid workers...
...Irish-bred colt The Deputy, who should go off as the bettors' second choice and provide competition for Fusaichi Pegasus down the stretch. Since shipping across the Atlantic late last year, The Deputy has won three of four starts, including the Santa Anita Derby, the major California Derby prep, in which he handed second-best War Chant his first career loss. The Deputy's only loss in the U.S. came in the March 19 San Felipe Stakes, where he battled but couldn't catch the Pegasus...
...whippersnappers get spanked by the NASDAQ, but TV's youthquake--when networks unleashed a hot-bodied army of Dawson's Creek clones to capture young audiences--triggered an avalanche of zit fatigue. The teen cop (Ryan Caulfield), the earnest young politicos (D.C.), the sexy prepsters (the never-aired Manchester Prep)--all were dead on arrival, while older-skewing dramas thrived...
Students themselves are an incredibly varied lot, especially for the Ivy League. This is not your father's Harvard--while prep school alums are common, they no longer run the show. Harvard undergrads come from every state and increasingly from abroad--the international student population is sizeable and growing...