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Chattanooga Area Boarding School Alumni and Administrators Talk About College Preparedness
In “Boarding School Has Benefits for College-Bound” writer Katherine Proctor spoke with alumni and administrators about the how boarding experience prepared students for collegiate life.
University of Tennessee at Knoxville freshman Christine Waite said her days as a boarder at the Baylor School helped her adjust to college.
‘After boarding at Baylor, I had no trouble transitioning [...]
Supporting the Green Schools Alliance
This week Jeremy McGeorge & I attended a fund raiser for the Green Schools Alliance, a project of Global Environmental Options: GEO.
The truly inspiring event was hosted in New York City at the Green Depot (an innovative supplier of environmentally friendly and sustainable building products.) The gala was framed by shelves of products [...]
The Current State of Private School Financial Aid from the Research Triangle
In a “Record numbers seek financial aid from private schools,” WRAL contributor Jane Paige touches on FA themes that we’ve been reading about and covering over the past year and a half. FA applications are up; school resources are stretched.
Paige does two things that make the article worthy of a quick read. [...]
Hawaii Preparatory Academy to Become Home to Energy Lab
Little focuses the mind as quickly as economic realities.
“Hawaii takes $7 billion from our economy for fuel alone and sends it overseas. It was reported recently that tourism spending has brought in almost $9 billion this year. We basically take a huge chunk of that income and give it away.” Robbie Alm, executive vice [...]
Mindful of a Liberal Education
Editor’s Note: Every once in a while someone sends you a piece to read, out-of-blue, that makes you wonder how have we forgotten this, or, how did we drift away from our foundation. We’ve come across such a piece that we like so much that we’re publishing it in it’s entirely.
Gordon E. Bondurant, Interim Head [...]