Sentence examples for preparatory academies from inspiring English sources

Influenced by Amateur Athletic Union coaches and people affiliated with shoe companies and other outside interests, the best players often attend multiple schools, including preparatory academies, in a two-way recruiting frenzy that mimics what they will experience in college.

And an increasing number of upper-class students are taking a fifth year of high school at elite preparatory academies to improve their grades and scores for competitive colleges.

"The officer corps of the elite Golani Brigade is now heavily populated by religious right-wing graduates of the preparatory academies," noted Moshe Halbertal, a Jewish philosophy professor who co-wrote the military code of ethics and who is himself religiously observant but politically liberal.

Jim Buck's School for Dogs was equal parts exclusive preparatory academy, exercise class and reform school.

In 1979 Obama graduated from Punahou School, an elite college preparatory academy in Honolulu.

Vincent Brevetti, principal of one portfolio school, Humanities Preparatory Academy in Manhattan, says its system works.

The history of the university began with the founding of Corvallis College, a coeducational preparatory academy, in 1858.

The principal at Kappa VII, as the preparatory academy is commonly known, entered the school in the fall and will be given more time to make changes.

Butchery is a new course being offered by the Oregon Episcopal School, an independent preparatory academy that prides itself on "inquiry-based learning".

In September the district opened a new public school, Palmer Park Preparatory Academy, that is run by teachers instead of a principal.

Ms. McCallum was born in South Africa, attended the Beacon School, a preparatory academy on the Upper West Side, and recently finished her sophomore year at Mills College.