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Henry Chanin , the 63-year-old head of the Meadows School, a private college-prep school in Las Vegas, visited the clinic in June 2006 for a checkup.
Las Vegas Generic-Drug Labeling Case in Crosshairs Alicia Mundy 2011
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Wong, "who still does student interviews," sets out in his letter to undermine Ms. Moses, but he inadvertently succeeds in confirming her rather disturbing obsession with her kids' college-prep requirements.
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True, the comprehensive high schools had commercial, vocational, and college-prep tracks (good grades in the last guaranteed admission to Berkeley or UCLA — times have definitely changed).
California Dreamers 2009
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He supplements his schoolteacher pay by working as a lacrosse coach, college-prep tutor and wedding DJ.
Budget Solution: Squeeze the Middle Sara Murray 2011
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- Those who neither participate in a broad-based, college-prep education nor apply themselves toward a technical skill that serves themselves and society need to be put to work maintaining our impoverished commons: cleaning parks, picking up trash, painting over grafitti.
Matthew Yglesias » Kristof Gets Education Mostly Right, Slights Importance of Poverty 2009
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He graduated from the Blake School (a private college-prep school) in 1969 where he lettered in wrestling.
Things You Might Not Know About Al Franken | myFiveBest 2009
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True, the comprehensive high schools had commercial, vocational, and college-prep tracks (good grades in the last guaranteed admission to Berkeley or UCLA — times have definitely changed).
California Dreamers 2009
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It's amazing that you became a lawyer since you were not on a college-prep track in high school.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: An Interview With Terence Winter: Executive Producer and Creator of HBO's Boardwalk Empire (Part 2 -- On Writing for TV) Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2012
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Bush and Klein would better serve the public by stressing the European and Asian concept of placing students in college-prep or vocational tracks after the 10th grade; that is the inevitable result of adhering to standards.
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If instilled early, these skills also help them to avoid the college-prep freak-out that traumatizes so many American families.
Tiger Mom's Long-Distance Cub Amy Chua 2011
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