"Education"
Selecting a Private School: It’s not easy nor should it be
After fielding questions from a caller inquiring about our school (The Webb Schools), it is inevitable that I get:
“So, where can I find your ranking among other boarding schools?”
Happens all the time. Much to their dismay, I have to tell them that there is no such thing and happily so. Yes, there have been multiple [...]
When Market Realities and Mission Conflict
You’re a seasoned admission director, new at your current school and enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. Within a year, you have established a marketing strategy that includes the usual glossy viewbook, flash presentations, E-Newsletters, bump mailings along with the requisite round of school fairs and informal receptions. By the third year, application numbers have improved [...]
Read MoreOne Man’s Bulimia
Frank Bruni’s cover article in the Sunday’s The New York Times Magazine, “I Was a Baby Bulimic,” provides a great window into adolescent and young struggles with body image along with the planning, thinking and strategies of a practicing bulimic.
Of course- a large part of the article is that eating disorders aren’t localized to women. [...]
Four Year Degree Completion: Myth and Endangered Species
We published “A Post Graduate Year; what’s that?” a few years back that’s read and cited on a regular basis. Several recent studies, articles, and their statistics continue lending support and credence to the possibilities of a PG year for some students.
These three articles and their statistical citations paint a picture of just how rare [...]
PrepLaxRecruits: A new prep school lacrosse blog!
Zack Lehman, head varsity boys lax coach at Gould Academy just started a new prep school lacrosse blog, PrepLaxRecruits. It’s got a good focus and premise as prep school lacrosse folks are a dedicated and focused bunch.
Lehman’s published mission: If you are a boarding school lacrosse coach or a student interested in applying to a [...]
Taking Girls Education Online: An Experiment
Michael Birnbaum writes in the Washington Post (Md. School Joins Test of Online Courses Tailored to Girls) that four girls schools Holton-Arms, Harpeth Hall, Westover School, and Laurel School are working together to offer girls school classes online in hopes of joining the special opportunities of a girls school classroom and online learning.
It’s an experiment; [...]
AP for Everyone: It’s Our Best Yardstick We Have
As AP leaders and readers begin grading student exams this week, Washington Post writer Jay Matthews makes the case for an almost universal validity in high school students taking AP courses (Is AP for All A Formula For Failure?). He takes on the arguments that ‘only qualified students’ should be allowed in AP classes and [...]
Read MoreWall Street Journal Features Wilbraham & Monson Academy
A quick post to kick off the week…
The Wall Street Journal Blog “Real Time Economics” features a post on Wilbraham & Monson Academy’s “stock trading floor” classroom.
Driven by the need instill students with financial literacy, the classroom simulates and allows students to work through the patterns and thinking of financial markets. Interestingly, one of Wilbrham’s [...]
Boarding School Photo of the Day: Miss Hall’s School
Miss Hall’s School, Pittsfield, MA (Girls Boarding/Day School, Grades 9-12)
Miss Hall’s students participating in their Horizon’s program, an “experiential, off-campus learning program. Part of the academic program, Horizons gives Miss Hall’s students opportunities to volunteer and intern each week at social service and cultural organizations, businesses, and professional offices.”
Read MoreFluidity 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 MoreBoarding School Photo of the Day: West Nottingham Academy
Photo of the Day: Lacrosse instruction at West Nottingham Academy, Colora, MD.
This year’s varsity boys team compiled a 3-2 record. The girls team went 0-1.
You can learn more about the school and it’s LAX program by visiting their web site: www.wna.org
Perkiomen Students Help Establish African Libraries
Perkiomen School middle school students collected books during May in their efforts to help establish libraries in Swaziland. Working with The African Library Project, PERK students packed and shipped 2,500 books to Swaziland where every 1,000 books create a working library.
Perkiomen Headmaster Christopher Thompkins told The Mercury News (Perkiomen School establishes library … in [...]
Boarding School Photo of the Day: Stevenson School
Starting today we’re excited to launch our Boarding School Photo of the Day series. We encourage readers to submit their favorite shots. Simply send us the image (or a link to it’s online home- a la Flickr) along with the appropriate photo credit and we’ll do the rest.
Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, CA is [...]
Traditional Schools Turn to the Lessons and Strategies of Progressive Schools to Lower Costs
Get involved. Help the school operate. Work. Provide a service. These are a few of the strategies highlighted in Gretchen Becker’s Indianapolis Star article, “Private schools get creative on payments: Schools find ways to keep kids enrolled despite recession.“
Parents are committed to making private school work for their kids: “…one pattern is emerging: Even when [...]
Kevin Laue Signs with Manhattan College
We highlighted Mr. Laue, a Post-Graduate student at Fork Union Military Academy, in a post titled “Working to Overcome” back on January 5th and we’re delighted to see that he has earned a scholarship to play NCAA Division I basketball beginning in the fall at Manhattan College.
“…After Laue was featured in The New York Times [...]
