"Education"
My Family Doesn’t Have A Lot of Money But I Want To Go To Boarding School
We recently received a great question from a young man and we think his question, and our reply, are post worthy. His question made us think and a few families and students may benefit from our reply. The young man’s question (paraphrased as it’s a full paragraph): I come from a low income family. My [...]
Read MoreHelping Students Build a Foundation for a Mathematical Future
Building on the effort to help students build a stronger mathematics foundation, Westtown School is expanding its adoption of the Singapore Math curriculum. Westtown will now use the curriculum throughout the elementary and middle school grades. The expansive adoption of Singapore Math is Westtown’s response to American student’s poor standing on a number of math [...]
Read MoreHow could you not root for Ed Cooley to succeed as head coach at Providence College?
A follow-up on our March post covering Ed Cooley’s (New Hampton School ’89) appointment as Providence College basketball coach. This past week, Cooley took ESPN’s Andy Katz on a tour of southside Providence where he grew up. Cooley observed in his introductory press conference, “home means everything to me.”(ESPN) Cooley takes Katz, and viewers, through [...]
Read MoreGlobal Online Academy Launches This Fall with a Boarding School Member
In what could prove to be a model for online collaboration among independent schools, Cranbook Schools (Bloomfield Hills, MI) is one of the 10 charter members (and the only boarding school) of Global Online Academy. Global Online Academy is a non-profit consortium of ten schools working to bring rigorous academic courses and great teaching online so that [...]
Read MoreA Boarding School Expands
Understanding that its students would benefit greatly from extending The Greenwood School experience into early high school, Greenwood is adding 9th and 10th grade programs beginning fall of 2011. Greenwood has been a boys junior boarding school up to this expansion. Greenwood’s specialized program is geared to work with “bright and talented boys with learning [...]
Read MoreThe Decline of Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies
If you were in schools, in any capacity, during the past 20, or so, years, you’re familiar with zero-tolerance discipline policies- policies put in place to provide clarity both, in the rule, and the punishment. Do X and you’re removed from school. Boy, did the clarity of zero-tolerance sound good on paper. Everyone would know [...]
Read MoreAmerican Students “Don’t Know Much About History:” The $1 Million Question is ‘Why?’
(Full Credit to Sam Cooke for the title.) “The National Assessment of Educational Progress 2010” results are out. Results are mixed; in some areas pretty good; poor in others. Covering the story for The New York Times, Sam Dillon, covers the mostly lowlights and touches on some positive trends in “U.S. Students Remain Poor at [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Goes Back to the Future: Public School Develops Boarding Program
Michael Winerip’s “Tiny Town Recruits Students Worldwide,” in Saturday’s New York Times chronicles the rise of an international boarding student program at Newcomb Central School (Newcomb, NY). A town under stress as industry declined and its population seeks opportunity elsewhere, Newcomb school enrollment had fallen to 55 students, K-12. Necomb’s solution comes right out of [...]
Read MoreIs there Another Russell Wight Jr. Out There? Benefactor Changes Lives Through Boarding School Opportunities
“’For the amount of money we spend, the return we get is unbelievable…We change lives,’” foundation founder Russell Wight Jr. Wight believes that now is time to grow; he’s starting to look for other benefactors who can support The Wight Foundation model in other cities.(NS-L) The foundation has been quietly supporting and making a boarding [...]
Read MorePublic School Budget Cuts Open Boarding School Window of Opportunity
Many readers may not know that during the late spring, I unplug much of my time from AdmissionsQuest and move back to the school-side of the admission process. For a month-and-a-half each April and May, I travel the country meeting prospective families interested in Wolfeboro: The Summer Boarding School. I just finished my 14th year [...]
Read MoreDavid Brooks Takes the Current Spate of Self Centered Graduation Speeches to Task- and they deserve it
Painting in broad strokes, Brooks writes the anti-graduation speech making that case- as the best teachers and lessons always do- that the world is not always about you. A life well-lived demands that you set yourself aside. And, that’s something that boarding school teach well- through their tightly knit communities, common values and purposes, and [...]
Read MoreSecond Languages (and that includes mathematics) Make Your Brain Stronger
Why learn a second language? Why take math classes beyond the minimum requirements? Here’s why. Learning languages makes your brain stronger; learning more than one language is nothing but good. Cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok makes the quick case in a condensed conversation with The New York Times’ Claudia Dreifus. “How does this work — do [...]
Read MoreA Q&A About Teen Sleep Deprivation
A follow-up to our previous post, “Teenage Sleep Studies Back in the News.” Following Trudeau’s story, NPR invited listeners to submit questions around teen sleep deprivation. Three experts then shared their thoughts about the listener questions: Dr. Helene Emsellem, neurologist at George Washington University and medical director of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders, [...]
Read MoreTeenage Sleep Studies Back in the News
We’ve covered tweaking school schedules to help teens with wakefulness and focus. And, though the science continues growing around teen sleep cycles and needs, not many schools have responded with changes that would allow more sleep, later start times, etc. Parents and students are left to find sleep solutions on their own. NPR’s Michelle Trudeau, [...]
Read MoreSending Your Freshman to College: Parenting Advice from Malcolm Gauld
Editor’s note: Reading excerpts from Malcolm Gauld’s (Hyde Schools, president) new book “COLLEGE SUCCESS GUARANTEED: Five Rules to Make it Happen,” we became curious about the book’s context and why it seems to make so much sense right now. We got in touch with Mr. Gauld and he was kind enough share this exchange with [...]
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