He got out from under the shadow of his four brothers at Prep and started to take school more seriously.

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As it turns out, the quarter certainly was a troubling period for the purveyors of American prep, but not as gastly as feared.

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The Wood was a final prep before the Derby on May 4, and Pletcher got exactly what he wanted out of his talented colt, a son of More Than Ready.

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There's much to like in the new plan, beginning with the foundation's confession that version 1.0, focused on creation of small high schools, didn't turn out very well, save for several networks of high-performance charters such as KIPP, Yes-Prep and Achievement First.

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