Word: preps
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...grandmother was always there. She took care of Obama when he was 10 and returned to Hawaii to attend school while his mother spent a few years continuing her anthropological research in Indonesia. At the time, his grandparents helped Obama get a scholarship to Punahou, an élite prep school on the island. All three of them lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment on Beretania Street in Honolulu...
...When Stone arrived at Harvard in 1994 after coaching at various prep schools, she quickly worked to convert what had been a mediocre program into a powerhouse. After finishing under .500 three seasons in a row, the Crimson executed a stunning turnaround in the 1998-99 campaign, cruising to a 31-1-0 record and the AWCHA championship. Since then, Harvard has consistently been among the top teams in the nation, appearing in seven NCAA tournaments and winning five ECAC titles...
...unlike the PSAT or SAT, ReadiStep scores won't end up at any college-admissions or financial-aid office - they'll be sent only to current schools and families to be used as a diagnostic tool to help determine what college-prep skills youngsters should bone up on. Parents and students should not anticipate it becoming "the pre-pre-pre-PSAT," says Lee Jones, College Board's senior vice president of college-readiness products. And it will be schools and districts themselves that decide whether to administer ReadiStep, which will be offered during two-week windows in the spring...
...September) was on Monday at 9 a.m. As I rushed by the John Harvard statue, trying to make it to my test by seven-past, I couldn’t help but overhear admissions tour guide Erica V. Eastspring ’11 explaining to a crowd of feisty, prep-school seniors why she love, loves Harvard so, so much. “To be quite frank,” she shouted, striking up an inappropriately academic tone for the setting at hand, “I absolutely adore Harvard’s quaint, collegiate, neo-Georgian architecture...
...Obama's gut steadiness that won the public's trust, and quite possibly the election. On the afternoon when McCain suspended his campaign, threatened to scuttle the Sept. 26 debate and hopped a plane back to Washington to try to resolve the crisis, Obama was in Florida doing debate prep with his top advisers. When he was told about McCain's maneuvers, Obama's first reaction - according to an aide - was, "You gotta be kidding. I'm going to debate. A President has to be able to do more than one thing at a time." But there was a storm...