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DIED. HENRY CHAUNCEY, 97, founder of the Educational Testing Service who engineered the rise of standardized testing in college admissions; in Shelburne, Vt. As assistant dean at Harvard in the 1930s, he objected to the elitist system that admitted only prep-school students. With Harvard president James Bryant Conant, he promoted the meritocratic but previously little-used SAT, now taken by 2 million students a year...
...represented the ninth congressional district in Memphis for 22 years, Ford Jr. is only one of the aggressive young politicians to emerge from a budding black political dynasty. His colleagues in the House include Chicago's Jesse Jackson Jr. (with whom Ford attended St. Albans, the prestigious Washington prep school that also produced Gore); Missouri's William Lacy Clay, whose father, William Clay, dominated the same district in St. Louis for a generation; and Florida's Kendrick Meeks, who just won a Miami district vacated by his mother, Carrie Meeks. "There were three things we had no choice about doing...
...childhood obesity is skyrocketing--there has been an almost threefold jump in the number of overweight teens since the 1970s--some school cafeterias look little different from food courts at the local mall. Many serve burgers and pizzas rife with full-fat meats and cheeses or simply turn the prep work over to franchises like Burger King and Papa John's, which have a burgeoning side business in catering school meals. "If nothing changes, a generation will be having heart bypasses by the time they're 25," says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University's Center for Eating and Weight...
...Latin. The two have encountered some surprised reactions when people learn that they are working toward their teaching certification. Brown says, “When I tell people I’m doing this, they say, ‘Oh yeah, I was thinking about teaching in a prep school or doing Teach For America.’ They don’t realize that I’m thinking about making a career out of teaching in public schools.” Koski-Karrell agrees, “To most people, it seems kind of silly...
Growing up in Seattle, Wash., Pettit spent his weekends driving the two and a half hours up to Vancouver, B.C., where his league games took place. He eventually left the West Coast for four years of hockey at Taft, a Connecticut prep school...