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Think Boys Schools are Irrelevant? Think Again. Boys Schools More Relevant Than Ever
In education as with all academic endeavors, the pendulum swings from topic to topic, crisis to crisis, and group to group. In recent years, research has turned to looking at boys education and male achievement- driven in large part by males achieving at lower rates, and levels, than women in education and the job market. [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Alumni in the 2012 Super Bowl
Always looking for boarding school alumni in big stages, I’ve found three players in Sunday’s Super Bowl. This list isn’t exhaustive. If I didn’t find someone, please add them to the comments.
Read More“Room for Debate” Adds Voices to the Single Gender School Question
For the second time in a little over a week, we find a topic resonating, among the boarding/private school community as the topic of discussion in The New York Times “Room for Debate” series. Recently “Room for Debate” covered ADHD; last week the experts with perspectives examine single gender schools. We penned a post on [...]
Read MoreSingle Gender Schools Don’t Work?
Wow, we’re suffering from whiplash and waiting for the fireworks. On Friday we wrote (Understanding Boys’ Friendships) about Niobe Way’s Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. Today, we write about the non-profit group American Council for CoEducational Schooling. They may be non-profit but, boy, do they seem to have an ax to [...]
Read MoreUnderstanding Boys’ Friendships
Niobe Way’s Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection has been out a few months and, I admit, I let it slip down the priorities list. Really, it got buried. Thanks to New York Times writer Jan Hoffman for prompting me- through yesterday’s article, “Allowing Teenage Boys to Love Their Friends“- to pull [...]
Read MoreA Guided Tour of McCallie School [Video]
Taking the audience inside McCallie School, J.T. and Ned make a strong case for McCallie and as well as the boys school experience in general. Both young men, independently, come to talk about their relationships with faculty and each other- the brotherhood. JT closes the video with this warm appreciation of the relationships that he’s [...]
Read MoreA New Option for Families Seeking an Orton-Gillingham Based Learning Differences Program
St. Stanislaus, a Catholic boys boarding school in Bay St. Louis, MS, will begin offering an Orton-Gillingham language based learning differences program to a limited number of boys beginning this fall (2011). The program will allow the school to effectively serve boys who may be struggling with language based learning differences. St. Stanislaus teachers will [...]
Read MoreEducating Boys: Grand River Academy Reaches 180 Year Milestone
Grand River Academy, like many schools founded in eighteenth and nineteenth century, has seen some changes while maintaing relevance and longevity. Today, 180 years old, Grand River is a place where boys gain their footing and this modern mission grows directly out of the the school’s early roots. Carl Feather of The Star Beacon (Ashtabula, [...]
Read MoreSalisbury School Alumnus Peter Clark: Baseball Hall of Fame Curator
Researching boarding schools players likely to be taken in the 2011 Amateur Baseball draft, I came across this interesting story about Salisbury School alumnus (’61), Peter Clark . Clark is the recently retired curator of collections for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Clark didn’t set out to make a career at [...]
Read MoreTrinity-Pawling Head Talks Boys Education While Participating in Social Media
Confirming the growing power, and influence, of student produced- less formal- media, Trinity-Pawling School headmaster, Arch Smith sat for a video interview with student vloggers Teddy and Ian. This conversation dovetails nicely with yesterday’s post (Reality Coming Into Relief: Boys Education Needs Attention) covering Thomas Mortenson’s study “Economic Change Effects on Men And Implications for [...]
Read MoreReality Coming Into Relief: Boys Education Needs Attention
Thomas Mortenson’s latest study on the ways that American economic and educational changes affect men, “Economic Change Effects on Men And Implications for the Education of Boys,” receives a good airing by Sarah Sparks through her Education Week blog “Inside School Research.” Boys, and men, falling behind women, and girls, isn’t a new topic. The [...]
Read MoreBringing Boys Education Back into Focus
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I’m not a big television watcher, so thanks to our friends at Blue Ridge School (an all-boys boarding school in St. George, VA) for sharing this story. Earlier in March, NBC Nightly News ran a series titled, America at the Crossroads. After an [...]
Read MoreFootball Signing Day: Boarding School Flavor
I can’t find a good, single list of boarding school players who signed today, but I found something close. ESPNBoston has a list of Massachusetts players scheduled to sign today. It lists high school and college with whom they’re signing. It’s missing some of the Western New England schools and looks like it might short [...]
Read MoreAn Educational Consultant’s Note on Salisbury School
At Salisbury School (an all-boys boarding school in Salisbury, CT), I met great young men who explained that Salisbury helped them so much in academics, athletics, visual and performing arts. A common thread ran through al of their comments; they all learned how to study, take notes, write papers, and play great sports. Beyond academics [...]
Read MoreSt. Thomas More School’s Adam Jones Featured by ESPN.com
ESPN writer, Matt Stout, tells Adam Jone’s (St. Thomas More School) story of self-reliance, hard times, and ingenuity as he worked through a difficult and fluid family situation clinging to school and basketball (The long, hard journey of Adam Jones). Jones displayed impressive discipline and perspective as he struggled to find firmament in his home [...]
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