At the KIPP Believe College Prep school, teacher Scarlet Feinberg is putting her new students through their paces.
In 2006, the serial entrepreneur in me decided to focus my energies in the college prep sector, including admissions consulting.
He said the proposed Social Justice High School-Pride Campus would be a college prep school for about 600 students.
She was 15 years old, an honor student at King College Prep.
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Ultimately, Kabban hopes to build a "peace-building" charter school for refugees, immigrants and marginalized youth that would use soccer in a formal college prep program.
New Orleans West (NOW) College Prep opened its doors in central Houston on Oct. 3, 2005 (a week behind schedule due to evacuations for Hurricane Rita).
That was clear when I gathered two moms and a dad in the cafeteria of the KIPP Believe College Prep School, a new charter school in New Orleans.
Jessica Brondo is the founder and CEO of The Edge in College Prep, a global educational consulting company with offices in New York, London, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
As opposed to, say, a t-shirt manufacturer that hires and trains the people who might live in those areas, or a college prep firm interested in helping kids from such backgrounds get into college.
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Pendleton, 15, an honor student and band majorette at Kings College Prep School, died Tuesday after a gunman shot her at a park in what her godfather, Damon Stuart, described as an "ideal community" on Chicago's South Side.
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The college prep company, for example, might have to start by working with kids from wealthier families, to build up a financial cushion that would allow it to pursue its real mission. (And I wrote about one such company).
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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.
Both grew up in upper-middle-class homes and attended college-prep Christian schools.
In 2006, as a serial entrepreneur, I decided to focus my energies in the college and university prep sector, including admissions consulting.
An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college- or career-prep course online to earn a high school diploma.
And as is the case with many employee stock purchase plans, regardless of whether the stock is a high flyer like Apple or not, they can be a very effective way to invest for a variety of financial objectives such as prep school costs, college costs, paying for a home, a vacation property or retirement.
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Yet I give far more money to my prep school than to my college.
Bush grew up in Midland, but like his father, he attended prep school at Andover and college at Yale.
Plus, prep coaches boast experiences their college counterparts wouldn't dream of.
He was the head coach at two prep programs, then the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College.
At South Bronx Prep, the graduation rate was also higher than 90%, yet only around 15% met the college readiness criteria.
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