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• D.C. parents push for social supports for kids with autism

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  From the Washington Post:Increasing numbers of Washington-area parents say public schools are failing their children with mild autism, and are turning to private programs that provide help with social and emotional skills.The parents say public school general education classes  weren’t providing appropriate ...
  3 hours ago

• Boarding School Playing for the State 4A Mississippi High School Championship

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  We’ve got something out of the ordinary happening here in Mississippi. Saturday at 3 PM, in Jackson, the St. Stanislaus Rock-A-Chaws play the Lafayette County High School Commodores for the 2009 Class 4A football championship. The Rock-A-Chaws and the Commodores are the south and north half champions respectively. ...
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• A Place Where You Cannot Protect Your Child

  
  9dom Info Site — Authority: 144
  There are a lot of reasons that parents consider pulling their kids out of public schools and putting them in private institutions. The quality of education and lower teacher to student ratios often are sited. Private schools can do better with special needs or working with students with special talents as well. ...
  8 hours ago

• Supporting the Green Schools Alliance

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  This week Jeremy McGeorge & I attended a fund raiser for the Green Schools Alliance , a project of Global Environmental Options: GEO. The truly inspiring event was hosted in New York City at the Green Depot (an innovative supplier of environmentally friendly and sustainable building products.) The gala was ...
  11 hours ago

• Getting to Know Dublin School

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  Community. Force me to chose a single word to describe Dublin School , I’d say ‘Community’ ranks #1 on my list. Students & faculty talked about it with great passion during my campus visit last year and Sheila Bogan, Dublin’s Director of Admission, reinforced why the school’s small boarding community ...
  12 hours ago

• How A Prep School Rivalry Became A Long Term Grudge

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  Rivalries aren’t limited to college football. They exist at all levels of sport and prep school football holds some long and storied rivalries in Exeter vs. Andover, Kent vs. Loomis for the spoon…Always fun are the how’s and why’s of how a particular rivalry began. On Worcester Academy ’s WA Mash is the ...
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• An Educational Consultant Visits Eagle Hill School

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  Eagle Hill School (Hardwick, MA) educates eighth through twelfth grade students with learning (dis)abilities, including Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Faculty are committed to providing an intimate and individualized course of study for each student within a traditional boarding school setting. I found the ...
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• Rainbow Over Dublin School

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  An overnight rainstorm resulted in a spectacular sunrise rainbow arching over Dublin School ’s campus. Thanks to Shelia Bogan, Dublin’s Director of Admission, for sharing the photo.
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• The Pathway to a US University Can Go Through Canada

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  A few weeks ago I returned to Canada after spending 2 1/2 weeks in Asia, representing Sedbergh School at boarding school fairs in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City. This was an excellent opportunity for a school like ours to speak with and recruit some great students from these areas. Since the ...
  2 days ago

• Private School Tuition Troubles Not Local

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 133
  Parents of NYC Private School students have been troubled by the increases in tuition payments for years. It is a rite of the season to discuss and bemoan the yearly tuition hike at just about every school, but it may be worth acknowledging that NYC is not alone in the financial crunch with school [...] Post from: ...
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• Should children be watching films at school?

  
  School Gate - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 525
  Joanne Jacobs asks this question, about School Time TV on her blog. She writes about how children in (American) schools seem to be watching an inordinate amount of videos during school hours and quotes one mother who discovered that her daughter had watched Enchanted in English class and Ratatouille, The ...
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• Letters: How to connect with the voters

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Madeleine Bunting brilliantly places David Cameron in the social and educational nexus from which he grew ( An ordinary kinda guy hes not , 30 November). She pinpoints the "enviable sense of security" it has given him, but seems surprised that the class system which perpetuates this has not succumbed to a post-60s ...
  3 days ago

• Getting to Know Dana Hall School

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  Wendy Secor, Director of Admission & Financial Aid, Dana Hall School (an all-girls, boarding/day school, Wellesley, MA) joined me for a Getting to Know conversation that touched on a number of points ranging from: 1. Dana Hall’s competitive academic program. 2. the leadership possibilities available at a ...
  3 days ago

• New Education Policy

  
  Jahane Rumi — Authority: 120
  The truth is that a policy in Pakistan has been reduced to a fancy document that is written and published for the consumption of supposedly naive citizenry and the donor community that often pumps money and ill-conceived programmes into this sector.
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• Fort Worth teens appointed to volunteer council

  
  Extra Credit — Authority: 121
  Two juniors from Fort Worth Country Day School were appointed to the Youth Volunteer Corp of North Texas Youth Advisory Council. Shannon Sauerhage and Matthew Fleet will serve on the council for two years. The Youth Volunteer Corp of North Texas launched this fall at the Volunteer Center of North ...
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• Private School Educational Opportunities

  
  NYC Private Schools Blog — Authority: 133
  Factors that contributed to the increase in tuition costs for Private Schools were driven, in part, by the increased demands of the parents for their children and the increased expectations of alumni and higher educational facilities. As more money poured into the economy and wealth and privilege weren’t just ...
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• Hun School Junior Builds Entrepreneurial Network

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  Working to capitalize on the strength of social networking and building from his own talents and experience, Herwig Konings launched Discover A Startup Idea . Building on his entrepreneurial bent, Konings is seeking to build an online community of entrepreneurs openly sharing ideas looking, of course for feedback, ...
  3 days ago

• home schooling?

  
  gweipo ?? — Authority: 132
  The kids have had 2 days off school. I havent had 2 days off my studying, so theyve been to Ocean Park with friends yesterday morning and to a bowling party this morning. I got back from my run this afternoon. "hi mum" from a distance. "Whereve you been?" I go to investigate. Theyre in Ns room. "Were ...
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• An Educational Consultant Visits Phillips Exeter Academy

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  Phillips Exeter Academy is a place where students come to learn about learning. I got a real sense of community in a large college-like setting. Students hustling to classes on their bikes; students running to sports; students in classes were fully engaged around Harkness tables. Each student is expected to play an ...
  4 days ago

• St. Andrews-Sewanee’s John Holleman Bring Richness to School and Local Theater

  
  Boarding School Blog - onBoarding Schools — Authority: 131
  Nashville Scene ( New mask theater production of Oedipus the King makes Sophocles classic accessible without dumbing it down ) highlighted the work of St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School ’s John Holleman (November 20) for his work in adapting Oedipus the King to our era and to the needs of local theater. Holleman’s ...
  4 days ago

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