"boarding school perceptions"
Fluidity is the Order of American Higher Education: Moving Beyond the High School Graduation-Four Year Undergraduate Model
A few years back I wrote piece about spending a post graduate year in boarding school before moving on to college- “A Post Graduate Year; what’s that?” The reasons for pursuing a PG year proved consistent among the students and families choosing an extra year of high school- graduating young, improving maturity, more academic preparation, [...]
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 MoreOur Boarding School Decision
The deposit check has been mailed and the thank you notes sent. Our daughter is delighted with the outcome, and we are so grateful to our consultant who directed us to the school which has been our daughter’s first choice all along and which we would never have found on our own. The last step [...]
Read MoreKnox School Wakes From Slumber with Ambition and a Plan
With new head of school George Alison at the helm, The Knox School is focusing its mission and looking to grow its current student population by 40 over the next few years- to about 170 from its current 130 students. Jennifer Lawrence joined the Knox board of trustees and set to realizing the schools potential [...]
Read MoreAsk Me Why Boarding School? Relationships
I almost let this comment go, but it’s too good to pass-up. Last Thursday (3/12) David Brooks focused his column on President Obama’s education reform an efforts (No Picnic for Me Either). While Brooks pushes, prods, and argues that Mr. Obama needs to move educational policy to recognize and reward great teachers, I was particular [...]
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 MoreIn Defense of Childhood
I recently received a call from a mother, a doctor, who wanted me to give her names of elementary schools in the area. After offering a list of public and private schools without suggesting which was best, I was then asked what I thought the best way to prepare her child for our school. I’ve [...]
Read MoreSt. Timothy School’s Students Give Perspective to a Professional Organizer
Hannah McConnaughay, an Outreach Education and Training Associate at the Interfaith Youth Core of Chicago contributed today’s installment of the Newsweek/Washington Post’s “On Faith” blog (Finding Citizen Change-Makers at Boarding School). A Chicago native she found herself wistful, sad, irritated, and a little jealous that she would miss President Obama’s inauguration. On inauguration day she [...]
Read MoreFive Cool Things to Know About Westover School
Today I’m taking folks at Westover School, a girls boarding school in Middlebury, CT, through my social media workshop. As with each workshop, my desire is to be both theoretical and practical. One goal the workshop is to collaborate with the school to produce a finished blog post (missing accomplished!). As homework, my Westover friends [...]
Read MoreThe Value of Living Within One’s Means: Experience Provides Advantages for Tuition Driven Schools in Tight Times
An odd thing during these times of declining endowment income- several New England colleges are doing OK. In a Boston Globe piece several smaller tuition driven schools report that the relationship with their students and school growth haven’t yet changed much. They’re used to offering good value and opportunities- funded predominately with tuition dollars. Smaller [...]
Read MoreThe Boarding School Mom’s Daughter Provides Admission Tips
Editor’s Note: We’re excited to feature a post by the Boarding School Mom’s daughter. She offers her on the ground take on the boarding school admission process. Going through the admissions process is stressful, not only for the parent, but also for the child. Many parents add extra pressure and stress, but also you hear [...]
Read MoreCall For Southern Boarding School Thoughts & Ideas
Northeastern boarding schools tend to capture a good bit of the spotlight. They’re more well known, make more frequent sustained appearances in popular culture (movies, stories, and books) and benefit from their physical concentration in New England. The conflation of wealthy cities and deeper educational roots makes Eastern boarding schools more of an assumed educational [...]
Read MorePerception vs the Reality of the Boarding School Experience
Editor’s Note: “A Parent’s Boarding School Admission Journal” appears every Thursday throughout the admission season. Check-in each week to read the Boarding School Mom’s latest entry. Before continuing with our adventures on the boarding school trail, I want to share my experiences over the past two weekends. These examples for me put in stark contrast the reality [...]
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