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Competitive Snowboarding: a chat with Gould Academy’s Chris Davies
If you’re high school snowboarder with collegiate or U.S. national aspirations, you might like our latest video interview with Chris Davies, Gould Academy, head snowboarding coach.
Read MoreA Boarding School Learning Skills Program Celebrates a New Home
Kents Hill School has been on the fore of learning differences programs having had a program for 32 years. The Akin Learning Center represents the latest step in the center’s journey from living room, to library, to dedicated, purpose built facility.
Read MoreBoarding School Alumnus Makes A Life In Brazilian Funk
Berkshire School alumnus Alex Cutler a.k.a Don Blanquito is the subject of New York Times writer Simon Romero’s article “Californian With an M.B.A. Follows His Heart to Brazilian Funk.”
Read MoreHow does Worcester Academy Figure in the Hiring of the Miami Dolphins Head Coach?
New Miami Dolphins’ head coach, Joe Philbin, did a post graduate year at Worcester Academy (a coed boarding school in Worcester, MA) during the 1979-80 academic year.
Read MoreSo You Want to be an Olympian?
London 2012 is only a few months away. Astonishingly, Brentwood College School (a co-educational boarding school in in British Columbia, Canada) already has 4 athletes that have been selected to try out for the 2012 Canadian Olympic rowing team. Over the last 30 years, Brentwood has consistently developed national and internationally recognized athletes, many [...]
Read MoreSuggested New Year’s Resolutions for Prospective Families in 2012
Five promises you should make this year when looking at educational alternatives for your high school-aged child: I will make a habit out of checking in on Admissionsquest and other valuable sites for great insights into independent schools. I will consider a boarding school (you will be blown away by the value-added options they provide). [...]
Read MoreBerkshire School Goes Solar
Lowering electricity prices and consumption in Massachusetts is serious business. Berkshire School doing something about it for their campus.
Read MoreThe Broad Range of Southeastern Boarding Schools
Atlanta Journal Constitution published a piece covering why metro Atlanta families are choosing boarding schools as an educational option. Dodd is good. She covers all the benefits of boarding school, but I’ll lend some perspective and encourage families to perhaps cast a wider net.
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Berkshire School
Three Berkshire School students are asked: “Are you going to miss it [your Berkshire experiences upon graduation]? Three Berkshire School students all answered, “yes.” In this tour of Berkshire School‘s campus (Sheffield, Massachusetts), thee BA students (two seniors, 1 PG) speak about the boarding school advantages of an engaged and supportive faculty. Chris (PG) appreciates [...]
Read MoreCate School Part Of Heart Health Study
You may know that we also cover items, topics, and happenings for the Western Boarding Schools Association’s blog. I call attention to a story on Cate School that I wrote this morning on the WBSA’s blog (Cate School To Study Adolescent and Young Adult Hearts). It’s just too interesting and important to miss. Briefly, Cate students [...]
Read MoreA Guided Tour of Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Stoneleigh-Burnham School students Hannah and Mary share their thoughts on the SBS experience. Academics at Stoneleigh-Burnham translate into college success. Stoneleigh girls work through a series of introductory foundational classes before moving on to advanced, or IB, level classes in the 11th and 12th grades. Core curriculum classes include work across the subject areas with [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Students Break a World Record
St. Mark’s School students set an unofficial new paper folding record this past Sunday. Working in MIT’s Infinite Hallway last Sunday, seventeen St. Mark’s students and their teacher, Dr. James Tanton, folded 53,000 feet of toilet paper in half thirteen times. The secured five feet long and two and ½ feet high made up of [...]
Read MoreDecember at a Boarding School
Okay, September seems like 3 minutes ago, not 3 months. This being said, it is now hard to differentiate between the students that started in the fall and those that have been here for a year or longer. At our school (www.brentwood.bc.ca), it appears to be a seamless transition and it seems like all of [...]
Read MoreGreat Prep School Basketball Teams To Appear On ESPN
ESPN’s 2011-12 GEICO ESPNHS Basketball Showcase confirms just how good New England prep school basketball is (watch the clip above from last year’s New England championship). Five New England boarding school teams appeared in the Five Star Preseason Top 25. Four of them, St. Mark’s School, Tilton School, New Hampton School, and Brewster Academy are scheduled [...]
Read MoreHow Boarding Schools Are the Gateway for Chinese Student Success
Back on November 3rd, The New York Times ran a collaborative article, “The China Conundrum” combining the work of their reporter, Karin Fischer, and Tom Bartlett of The Chronicle of Higher Education. I call attention to their piece in this forum because the demand and influx of Chinese students into American higher education parallels the [...]
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