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Is the Sky Really Falling When it Comes to America’s Education Predicament?
To be in American education over the last 30 is to have been besieged by the constant chatter decrying the failure, shortcomings, need for revolution/reform, and failure of the American educational system. Is everything we do in American education perfect, no. Do we need to make great improvement to certain elements of American education, hell, yes. [...]
Read MoreFour 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 [...]
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 [...]
Read MoreBoarding 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 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
Read MorePerkiomen 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 [...]
Read MoreBoarding 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 [...]
Read MoreTraditional 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 [...]
Read MoreKevin 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 [...]
Read MoreFresh Air Fund Benefactors Match Donations Through June 30th
Generous Fresh Air Fund benefactors will match your Fresh Air Fund contributions dollar-for-dollar through June 30th. Your donation- no matter the size- doubles. Your $10 donation becomes $20; a $50 donation becomes $100. We understand that everyone’s monies and budgets are tight and that giving may not be part of your current equation. Two things: [...]
Read MoreEmotion Trumps Reason in Student Effort to Conserve: Brooks School Students Use TellEmotion
In the ever present battle to stay aware-of and curb personal consumption, appealing to emotion may turn out to be a better motivator than our sense of reason. Students at Brooks School (Andover, MA) have turned to TellEmotion to help them stay on top of personal consumption and conservation. In simplest terms, TellEmotion connects the [...]
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 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 [...]
Read MoreParents and Schools Working to Maintain Private School Opportunities
Diana Costello has written a snapshot of the school and family sides of the private school admission process in the lower Hudson River Valley for the Journal News and LoHud.com (“Parents still paying up for private schools“). She chronicles the thinking and decisions of families as administrators work to keep their schools full and parents [...]
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 [...]
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