"Girls’ Schools"
Miss Hall’s School Highlights Two Articles from The New York Times
I have to admit; I was remiss in not putting these two articles together while I was traveling and in the middle of two books a couple of weeks ago when the New York Times ran them:
“The Women’s Crusade” Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
“The Way We Live Now, The Power of the Purse” Lisa [...]
A Visit to San Domenico School
Many thanks to the admission office at San Domenico School for giving me a tour of the campus during a recent visit to the Bay Area. You can see what I saw by viewing the photo gallery below.
If you’re not familiar with San Domenico, it’s a Catholic K-12 school in San Anselmo, CA that offers [...]
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; [...]
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 MoreIn Any Market, the Down Portion of the Cycle Offers Buying Opportunities: Private Schools Are No Different- Carpe Diem
In a piece for SmartMoney (The Private School Pinch), Neil Parmer makes the case for the current private school admission cycle as a buyers opportunity. He doesn’t sugar coat the costs but he makes the case for- and provides ideas and examples- of the negotiating and buying opportunities available to parents.
Boarding and private schools [...]
The Benefits of Girls Schools: now on to longitudinal studies
Huffington Post contributor Susan Sawyers also posted some thoughts about the National Coalition of Girls Schools study confirming benefits for girls in single gender schools (Are Single Sex Schools Good for Girls?). While nothing earth shattering, her comments are an interesting, “yes, but…”Clearly, single gender education cultivates some benefits. Is it a panacea? No. The [...]
Read MoreLasting Power of Girls Schools: more than anecdotal
Highlighted in the current National Coalition of Girls’ Schools newsletter is a UCLA study confirming the lasting affects of a girls school education on graduates. I find the most interesting aspect of the study coming from its longitudinal view. Alumnae seem to carry and benefit from their girls school experiences deep into college and graduate [...]
Read MoreWestover School and Brass City Ballet Expand Their Collaboration
Westover School and Brass City Ballet have expanded their five year joint program with a new opportunity beginning fall 2009. The new program will “provide more intensive ballet instruction for Westover students and bring new talent to Brass City Ballet.”
The expanded program offers Westover students the opportunity to become members of Brass City Ballet’s Performing [...]
St. 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 found herself [...]
Five 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 sent a list of five [...]
Annie Wright School Reaches Two Milestones
Congratulations to Annie Wright School. The school is celebrating its 125th year (2009)– during this time the school has grown from 46 students to 453 girls from 21 countries. (The News Tribune)
The schools founding “fulfilled the dreams of the Right Rev. John Adams Paddock and railroad executive-developer Charles Wright to establish a school for girls [...]
Boys and Girls Education in a Public School Setting
Today’s Memphis Commercial Appeal includes an interesting story covering school single gender classrooms in the Memphis public school system. This article makes a good addition to the vigorous discussion surrounding single gender education.
Much like The Webb Schools, about which we’ve written, Memphis has seen learning and test score improvements since providing lower school (9th and [...]
Our First Boarding School Visiting Day
In our three years of interviewing, we just went to our first open house/visiting day and wished we had attended more. Our day at this pretty, well-kept girls’ school began with a warm welcome by the admissions staff and breakfast in the dining hall. From the beginning I knew I would like the school as [...]
Read MoreA Consultant Tours Three Maryland Girls’ Boarding Schools
During the recent IECA conference I was able to find some time outside of the conference hotel to visit three Maryland girls’ boarding schools: St. Timothy’s School, Garrison Forest School and Oldfields School.
Visiting schools is the bread and butter of the consultant trade. Visits allow me to check-in and see how my students are doing [...]
Consider a Single Gender School If That’s What Best For Your Child
I recently came across an exchange between the authors of blog posts published in USA Today,
Lenora M. Lapidus, Director & Emily J. Martin, Deputy Director of ACLU Women’s Rights Project – New York and Meg Moulton, Executive Director of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools.
Ms. Moulton wrote a spirited defense of single gender education that [...]
