Elite Prep Schools, College-Size Endowments
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A growing number of endowments at the nationâs independent schools have become so big that trustees have hired full-time money managers.
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Top independent school Marlborough College is to help run a new inner-city academy in Swindon.
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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The athletic prowess of St. John's Preparatory School needs no introduction. The all-boys institution spreads its talent throughout its athletic programs, collecting All-Scholastic awards and state championships annually.
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The University of North Carolina is the best US collegiate breeding ground for budding entrepreneurs, according to rankings published by Forbes magazine on Friday.
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National Basketball Association officials together with shoe manufacturers and college leaders have reportedly discussed creating a national academy for elite high school players.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 21--In the arena of math and science instruction in Kentucky's high  schools, the law of supply and demand is having its irresistible impact.
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By Doug Pacey, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Sep. 20--The first Associated Press state prep football polls of the  season were released Tuesday night and three Northwest Conference schools are  ranked in the Class 2A top 10.
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WASHINGTON - Congressional tax writers are taking a hard look at elite US universities' multibillion-dollar endowment funds and considering steps to make them spend more of their riches to help students.
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Grade-school math plus time can add up to big bucks in the bank.
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Grammar schools were more successful than independent schools in England in getting pupils into university.
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Following is the Globe's preseason Top 20. For the Boston.com 100, go to Boston.com/schools. School Last year
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A number of leading public universities are drawing increasingly impressive and affluent students.
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A clash at a charter school in New York has exposed fault lines of wealth and class that are perhaps inevitable as philanthropists increasingly invest in public education.
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LABOR&#39;S policy of hitting the country&#39;s most expensive private schools is a vote-winner, according to internal polling that shows the more the private schools complain, the better for the ALP.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology overtook Yale University to record the best return last year among US schools with the 25 largest endowments, three years after bad bets on technology helped drain $1.4 billion from its fund.
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Thereâs a growing sense of urgency among educators that  every student should be on a college track.