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AdmissionsQuest for the Best Student Video: The 2009 Catalog
If you haven’t had a chance to visit onBoarding Schools’ sister blog, Boarding School Videos, then I encourage you to take a few minutes to browse the many entries. We’ve kept it as an eclectic, loosely organized, collection of school and student videos. No required topics or subjects. This free-form arena for boarding schools invites & [...]
Read MoreCall for onBoarding School Contributors!
Do you read onBoarding Schools regularly? Do you keep tabs on the boarding school world? Do you have a voice and perspective that you’d like to share with others interested in boarding schools? Would you like to join the team of bloggers at onBoarding Schools? If you believe you have a voice and insight to [...]
Read MoreInternet Protocols and Boarding School
April 7th marked the 40th anniversary of Requests for Comments or RFC. In “How the Internet Got Its Rules,” in the New York Times, Stephen D. Crocker recounts the fluidity as the World Wide Web became codified. RFC’s are the technical working papers that worked through and created internet standards and protocols that allowed different [...]
Read MoreLong Serving Massachusetts and Asheville Alumnus Nears Retirement: We Learned via Twitter!
Jurist Levin Campbell retires at the end of the month after serving 40 years on Massachusetts and Federal benches. Certainly a fair minded and famously even handed judge, it’s Mr. Campbell’s relationship with Asheville School that brings this to our attention. Asheville recently joined the Twitter conversation and they ‘tweeted’- a real time, 140 [...]
Read MoreAn Urban Boarding School
So often it seems that we lose track of schools located in unique locales. Visiting Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA, I found myself thinking: “When was the last time that I found myself on the campus of an urban boarding school?” Maybe never? Worcester is a good sized school- 600 total students with an upper [...]
Read MoreFamily First Academy, Erie, PA
I’m excited to welcome Family First Academy as an AQ Member School. Family First opened this month offering a traditional college preparatory curriculum in a living environment that provides “structure and defined expectations for students needing assistance with self discipline and motivation.” FFA is a residential community with students attending classes at Erie First Christian [...]
Read MoreThe Webb School, Bell Buckle, TN
I’m pleased to welcome The Webb School in Bell Buckle Tennessee as an AQ Member School. A traditional co-ed boarding school, Webb uses the English upper school model with grades 6-12- totaling approximately 300 students- about 100 of whom board. Students adhere to dress and honor codes. Webb has produced more graduates who’ve gone on [...]
Read MoreonBoarding Schools Launches
We’re excited to announce the launch of AQ’s blog – onBoarding Schools. For a number of years we’ve provided students & families with a rich collection of boarding school profiles, admission articles, financial information, etc. The start of our blog provides us with another way to deliver information and perspectives on the boarding school community. [...]
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