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Top 10 Boarding School Blog Posts from 2010!
As 2011 begins, we’d like to share the ten most read stories of 2010 (the inspiration from this post came from Bill Stites’ latest – Top 10 in 2010 – on edSocialMedia) on our Boarding School Blog. We expanded to feature new voices and perspectives during 2010 and we’re pleased that many new contributors made [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Fit: It’s Complicated Matching Student & School
Editor’s Note: A recent exchange between onBoarding Schools contributor Leo G. Marshall, Director of Admission, The Webb Schools and a reader requires its own space. Daphne, reading Leo’s post (In Defense of Childhood), wrote expressing concern that perhaps she had not structured her child’s time or pushed and programed her child harder. Achievement, it seemed [...]
Read MoreOur Boarding Schools Application Are In!
My apologies for having dropped off the internet for a few weeks. We live in that part of New England that was left without power for almost two weeks in mid-December due to a particularly vengeful ice storm. The upside was that school vacation began seven days early. The downside was that we were distracted [...]
Read MoreThe Real Work Begins
There are a couple of final school visits to share with you, but as time is running short in the admissions process, today I want to move to the real work of the process- the applications. We met with our educational consultant at the beginning of last week to winnow the list of schools visited [...]
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