Word: preps
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It’s not surprising that three of the 80 kids in my high school graduating class attended the Naval Academy; it was once the Academy prep school and has produced more admirals and generals than any other secondary school in the nation. Every year someone heads to USNA. Adam, Brad and Ryan left for the Academy right after graduation. I was psyched to see them that morning of July 4, 2002. My friends and I flashed our driver’s licenses for the guard at the USNA gate, following my usual running route to the waterside field...
...difficult work. Accordingly, Cardozo is using grant money to coordinate its curriculum with that of some local middle schools, so that students can take the kinds of challenging classes that will better prepare them for AP when they get to high school. Similarly, Wilson has started an AP?prep program to ready high school sophomores and juniors for AP by having them take summer courses before they enroll in an AP class. Says Principal Ballard: "It has to start before they reach...
...that time, Harvard students were no longer the prep-school gentlemen of Harvard’s earlier days. Raised during the Great Depression, many students came to Harvard after serving in the military and many came from middle-class homes, or were the children of blue-collar workers...
Consolini grew up in Canaan, Conn., which he refers to as “the town of 5,000 cows, 2,000 people,” and from which he is the first to have gone to an Ivy League school or prep school...
More than 50 percent of the entering Class of 1952 attended public high schools—a large shift for the previously prep school-dominate student body...