Sedbergh School filed the Canadian equivalent of a US chapter 7 bankruptcy, a “notice of intention,” which will allow the school to complete the current school year followed by an orderly unwinding of affairs and settling of its debt burden. It’s very sad news.
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A Canadian Boarding School Cousin to Close
The blog, Green Is Sexy , highlights Vermont Academy environmental initiatives and policies as part of their CFL Spotlight series. Of course it took me a second to get the CFL reference
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Vermont Academy Featured for its Green Initiatives
With the boarding school basketball season finished, we’ve come across a couple of highlights that provide an interesting picture of the intensely competitive Boys Class A level. Class A basketball hosts an unusual combination of athleticism and academic preparation
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Both Sides of the Prep School Basketball Coin: Athletics and Academics Boys Class A Basketball Concludes
It’s been considered in United States that a high percentage of this remarkable Rhodes Scholars are considered as these boarding school alumni. In each year, this Rhodes Trust awards for over 80 educational scholarships around the globe and 32 of this will go to the U.S.
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Production of High Concentrations of this Rhodes Scholars
In a quiet, but very public first (unconfirmed), Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel addresses- in a thoughtful, human, and understanding way- what is, essentially, the ‘third rail’ in college athletics- gay athletes. I’ve seen Tressel’s interview with Outlook Columbus noted at Yahoo Sports and at ESPN.com . Writing for Yahoo Sports, Dan Wetzel captures this issue tightly: “Competitive Athletics is on of the last bastions of accepted homophobia.
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Ohio State’s Jim Tressel Would Make a Great Boarding School Teacher
Summary: In recent years India has seen an explosion in low-fee private (LFP) schooling aimed at the poorer strata of society. This marketisation of primary education, around which there is much contentious debate, is a reflexive reaction to the well-documented failings of the government system. LFP schooling, initially an urban phenomenon, has over the past decade experienced considerable growth in rural areas, and it is the rural setting, home to the majority of Indians, which is the least researched
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School choice for the poor? The limits of marketisation of primary education in rural India
Charter schools — a cornerstone of the Obama administration’s education strategy — are facing resistance across the country, as they become more popular and as traditional public schools compete for money. The education scholar Diane Ravitch, once a booster of the movement, is now an outspoken critic. What is causing the push-back on charter schools, beyond the local issues involved ?
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The Push-Back on Charter Schools
A spate of reforms in the field of education, some of them already implemented and some awaiting implementation, have brought the subject of education into the focus of public debate. These include the abolition of examinations at the Class X level, the unification of syllabi of higher secondary courses and the introduction of a national common entrance examination. Moves towards public-private-partnership in education, the legislation on the Right to Education, the proposal to create a National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER), and steps towards compulsory accreditation, foreign direct investment and prevention of unfair practices also come in the same genre.
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Erosion of federal space in education
It is very heartening to see that education has finally started to attract the attention it has always deserved but was given an inexplicable short shrift especially in the last 20 years or so. While India talked about financial and other reforms, the education sector actually saw even more regressive policy steps and more stifling of efforts to create high-quality capacity from primary schooling right through post-graduate studies. At this time, there is a lot of optimism about the reforms in the education sector
Government policy towards school education is schizophrenic. While on the one hand, it is working on rules to set up, to begin with, 2,500 public private partnership schools as a means to see how it can increase private sector involvement in providing education to the underprivileged (economically or socially) in a bigger way; on the other, it is all set to virtually nationalise elementary education in the country through the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. If that sounds like a huge overreaction, read on
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Beware school nationalisation
NEW DELHI: The countdown for implementation of the historic Right to Education Act from April 1 has begun. Complete with a new message – `elementary education of equitable quality is now the right of every child’ – and a short awareness film, HRD minister Kapil Sibal has asked chief ministers to cooperate in universalising elementary education. Though Sibal has chosen to launch RTE from Delhi instead of some educationally deprived state, his letter to CMs makes six suggestions.
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RTE countdown begins, Sibal seeks states’ support
Editor’s Note: For our 500th blog post, we invited friend and Independent Educational Consultants Association , Executive Director, Mark Sklarow to comment and reflect on onBoarding Schools’ contributions to families and the larger boarding school community.
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National Association Director Marks onBoarding School’s 500th Post
It has been argued that in order to excel at something or become an expert in a particular discipline, it takes 10,000 hours of work and practice. That is no doubt a great deal of time, which at 2 hours per day would take 13 years to reach. But for high school students at many Canadian boarding schools , the unique programs that are offered at these schools, teach every student about the dedication and discipline that is required to complete such a task
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10,000 Hours to Greatness: Unique Boarding School Programs Teach Every Student Skills for the Future
In prep school admission and financial aid, it’s good to be ready for anything. With first round admission and financial aid letters due to arrive to families in the next few days, it’s time think about perspectives, plans, and responses depending on the offers you receive from schools
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Prep School Admission & Financial Aid Decisions Arrive in the Next Few Days
Fountain Valley School recently affirmed and expanded the school’s commitment to diversity and global experiences through the creation of the Global Scholar Diploma Program (GSD). Program Chair, Dr
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Fountain Valley School Builds Global Perspectives into Curriculum
Peter Baron of AdmissionsQuest forwarded an e-mail to me today from a woman wondering how open her children should be with their peers about their prep school applications and asking whether I thought the parents academic credentials carried any weight in the admissions process. The question of how open to be is a sensitive one. Some children who are already in private schools are often surrounded by other kids who are also applying.
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Private School A Special Opportunity- Not A Signifier of Social Status
The boarding school of Reigate that been founded as orphanage during the 18th century will now be receiving royal visit upon celebrating this 250th anniversary. The Royal Alexandra together with the Albert School of Gatton Park entirely welcomed Her Royal Highness Duchess in Gloucester. The Royal Duchess met on the current and as well former students of Reigate.
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Boarding Schools in UK Boarding School Types
Last year, the Museum of North have already announce of planning to join on with those scientist of Geophysical Institute towards bringing on upon studying the stars that can be seen around in the state. This idea was to incline the rural community of learners in the career field of science and engineering. As of today, this portable planetarium becomes quite progressive upon traveling town to town
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The NASA Days Allows Alaska Children to Study in Science Boarding Schools
Speaking as one school board member, I would support joint discussions about consolidating Charlottesville and Albemarle public schools. I think the time is right to get that conversation going. Brian Wheeler 2/24/10 * Daily Progress EDITORIAL [full story]….
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‘City, county, get together’: Daily Progress calls for talks about consolidation of schools
The Albemarle County School Board passed its FY2011 funding request Thursday evening. I have updated my budget analysis spreadsheet (with a look at hypothetical tax rates) and provided a list of the Tier I cuts that were implemented to arrive…