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...recalling how valuable intelligence can be before a summit. "The old man had been getting signals from people in Europe," the source says, and gave his son "a little dose of realism" about the continental mood. But Bush already knew trouble awaited him, so he held a secret prep session on May 31 in the Yellow Oval Room, upstairs at the White House, and invited specialists from across the political spectrum. Sure, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Rice were there, along with a host of lesser Bushies. But none of them did the talking. Instead, five outsiders briefed the President...
...High School. Moses, 66, is determined to make mathematical literacy as much a battle cry as voting rights were 40 years ago. He wants to overthrow what he calls "sharecropper education" by helping all students master algebra, preferably by the eighth grade, so they are ready to take college-prep math courses in high school...
...Test-prep companies aren't waiting around to see that final product. Kaplan and Princeton Review - seasoned by years of providing SAT and ACT Prep - and upstart TestU are doing brisk business in the K-12 market producing everything from CD- ROMs and guidebooks meant to help students as young as third graders prepare for state exams to staff development seminars for teachers. This month Kaplan even published a book, "Crusade in the Classroom," which promises to tell parents exactly how President Bush's reforms will impact their children's lives. TestU has gone a step further, charging individual schools...
Mazzoleni has not only gotten his present talent to perform at a higher level but has radically upgraded the quality of Harvard's recruiting. He has entrenched Harvard's dominance over the top prep school players, bringing it Tyler Kolarik, Robert Fried and Kenny Smith from that pipeline and has opened up other channels in Canada that the CCHA normally plucks...
...Nenneman came to Harvard, a scholarship student from Chicago, who despite not coming from an elite New England prep school, felt no academic disadvantage...