Gore for his part was taught at his prep school to choose the hard right over the easy wrong, which is a good lesson, assuming it's easy to tell those apart.

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But in 1994, when then-29-year-old Jonathan Grayer took over as CEO of the Kaplan unit, the test-prep company came down with an acute case of expansion fever.

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Retired history teacher David Gould took nearly 2, 000 ninth-graders over the years on retreats to Turtle Island from Durham Academy, a prep school.

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Six of the 10 fastest growing occupations over the next decade will be low wage jobs like fast food, retail, food prep, child care, home health care.

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