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Getting a head start on college

Dual-enrollment program gives high schoolers a jump

Jeanne Tran, 17, a senior at Excel High School in South Boston, takes a college math class at UMass-Boston. Jeanne Tran, 17, a senior at Excel High School in South Boston, takes a college math class at UMass-Boston. (BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF)
By Peter Schworm
Globe Staff / October 13, 2008

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The University of Massachusetts at Boston instructor scribbled algebraic equations on the blackboard at a breakneck pace, a blur of variables and exponents. As the chalk flew, three students in the class took notes just as furiously, filling page after page in their college-ruled notebooks. (Full article: 820 words)

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