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- adjective Before
college .
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This has been particularly true in New York, where SAT prep has become, for a certain caste of student, a kind of precollegiate arms race — and tutors are the mad scientists making the weapons.
Tutorized! 2006
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Members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors; students; precollegiate teachers; archivists, museum curators, and other public historians employed in government and the private sector.
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Members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors; students; precollegiate teachers; archivists, museum curators, and other public historians employed in government and the private sector.
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Although precollegiate programs get the lion's share of education aid under the federal economic-stimulus package, states are expected to use a considerable chunk of the nearly $100 billion in aid to restore cuts to-and even invest in-higher education programs.
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While national data on foiled school shooting attempts are not kept, experts believe that the main reason that precollegiate school shootings dropped off after the peak years for rampage-style attacks of 1997 to 1999 was that students began to take seriously the threats classmates made and reported them to adults.
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Ms. Newman sees the more recent spate of shootings on college campuses as slightly different than the precollegiate incidents.
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While national data on foiled school shooting attempts are not kept, experts believe that the main reason that precollegiate school shootings dropped off after the peak years for rampage-style attacks of 1997 to 1999 was that students began to take seriously the threats classmates made and reported them to adults.
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While national data on foiled school shooting attempts are not kept, experts believe that the main reason that precollegiate school shootings dropped off after the peak years for rampage-style attacks of 1997 to 1999 was that students began to take seriously the threats classmates made and reported them to adults.
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The president and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have made clear that they view the economic-stimulus law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-with some $115 billion in aid for precollegiate and higher education-as a means to launch education plans from improvements in standards and data-collection systems to performance pay.
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Ms. Newman sees the more recent spate of shootings on college campuses as slightly different than the precollegiate incidents.
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