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Boarding School

Why We Need Public Boarding Schools

Thomas Fisher | Posted 05.07.2013 | Impact
Read More: Boarding School, Education, Homeless Youth, Homelessness, Busing, Minneapolis, Seed, Homeless, Jail, Public Education, School, Affordable Housing, Impact News
Thomas Fisher

Affordable housing and school busing can do little to counter a disruptive family life or a dangerous neighborhood. We need an alternative: public boarding schools.

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'Once I Get There, It Will All Be Fine... Right?'

Braden Bochner | Posted 11.21.2012 | Teen
Read More: Kids Mgmt, Boarding School, Teens Addiction, Rehab, Teen News
Braden Bochner

The past always finds a way to creep up on me. My mind won't stop wandering to last year, when I was at boarding school. I can't stop thinking about the people I met and the friends I made.

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Missing Matthew

Laura Shumaker | Posted 10.31.2012 | Parents
Read More: Child With Autism, Boarding School, Parenting a Child With Autism, Special Needs Schools, Autism, Special Needs Boarding School, Sending Kids Away, Raising a Child With Autism, Parents-Autism, Parents News
Laura Shumaker

I was the only one who knew how to calm him during an adolescent, autistic meltdown. Now, I felt stripped of my duties.

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Prince Edward To See Much Changed At School For Low-Income Students Since Great-Great Grandfather

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 04.26.2012 | Home
Read More: Prince Edward Visit Girard College, Stem, Royal Family, Philadelphia School, King Edward VIII, Boarding School, School Fundraising, Education, School Budget, Girard College, Prince Edward, British Royal Family, Autumn Adkin Graves, Robotics, Low Income Students, Prince of Wales, STEM Education, Video, Home News

PHILADELPHIA -- When the future King Edward VII visited Girard College in 1860, the boarding school for underprivileged students served about 860 whit...

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The Stuck-at-Home Generation

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 06.11.2012 | Parents
Read More: Children, Independence, Todd Buchholz, Boarding School, Victoria Buchholz, Summer Camp, Sleepaway Camp, Parenting, Raising Independent Children, Fostering Independence, Parents News
Christine Carter, PhD

While independence is a part of happiness, so is connectedness. Past generations may have gone too far, making oh-so-independent Americans less connected to friends and family.

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New Allegations Surface In Kansas School Student Abuse Lawsuit

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 03.24.2012 | Home
Read More: School Discipline, Boarding School, Video, School Abuse, Military School, Student Abuse, Students Gagged, St. John's Military School, Military Schools, School Disciplinarians, Disciplinarians, Student Beaten, Military School Abuse, Home News

WICHITA, Kan. -- A California boy attends only four days at a Kansas military boarding school where he is tormented by staff and students after breaki...

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Christian School Accused Of Letting Students Punish Other Students By Gagging, Urinating On Them

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.12.2012 | Home
Read More: School Discipline, Boarding School, Video, School Abuse, Military School, Student Abuse, Students Gagged, St. John's Military School, Military Schools, School Disciplinarians, Disciplinarians, Student Beaten, Military School Abuse, Home News

Parents of four students have filed suit against the St. John's Military School in Salina, Kan., claiming the Christian school allowed a group of stud...

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School Denies HIV Positive Boy Admission, Faces Lawsuit

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.02.2011 | Home
Read More: School Admissions, Hiv, School Lawsuits, Civil Rights, School Discrimination, School Administrators, HIV/AIDS, Student Civil Rights, Hiv Positive, Boarding School, Video, Public School, Aids, HIV Discrimination, School Lawsuit, Home News

This 13-year-old from Delaware County, Pa. seems like the perfect candidate for a private boarding school: He's an honor student, is active in sports,...

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Wight Foundation Founder Seeks To Expand NJ Boarding School Program

Posted 08.16.2011 | Home
Read More: Russell Wight, The Wight Foundation, Boarding School, New Jersey, Russell B. Wight, Newark, College Preparedness, Home News

For years, he's been quietly sending hundreds of students from Newark and surrounding towns to prestigious boarding high schools. They are teens like...

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A New Model For Education In Pakistan

Rahim Kanani | Posted 07.28.2011 | Impact
Read More: Boarding School, Women and Girls, Education, Pakistan, Boys Education, The Hub School, Global Education, Pakistan Education, Pakistan-Poverty, Abdul Kader Jaffer, Impact News
Rahim Kanani

Abdul Kader Jaffer started a foundation in 1996 in memory of his late father. Their boarding school for 800 boys will surpass existing standards of education in Pakistan.

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Starting School 30 Minutes Later Leads To Better School Performance

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Public Schools, Education, Chicago Public Schools, Study Skills, Boarding School, School Times, Impact News

CHICAGO — Giving teens 30 extra minutes to start their school day leads to more alertness in class, better moods, less tardiness, and even healt...

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Kitchen Worker Arrested For Attempted Poisoning Of Students

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Poison, Boarding School, Food Poisoning, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Kitchen Worker Poison, Stowe School, Buckingham, World News

LONDON — A kitchen worker at an exclusive English boarding school has been arrested for trying to poison a batch of soup being prepared for stud...

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Royalty in LA: Tatiana von Furstenberg

Ione Skye | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Boarding School, Prince Charles, Dominic Dunne, Romanovs, Tanner Hall, Diane Von Furstenberg, Tatiana Von Furstenberg, Royalty, Austria, Russell Steinberg, Los Angeles News
Ione Skye

Nowadays, it's considered crass to flaunt a royal title, so who's expected to know that there is a princess living in Los Feliz: Tatiana von Furstenberg.

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Cuba Ends A Long Experiment in Indoctrinating Youth at Boarding Schools

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Cuban Education, Cuba, Cuban Boarding Schools, Cuban "New Man", Boarding School, Education, Education Reform, World News
Yoani Sanchez

The lack of productivity, the spread of diseases, the damage to ethical values and the low academic standards have discredited this method of education in Cuba.

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What Kind of Girl Power is This?

Rachel Simmons | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Women's Empowerment, Boarding School, Female Friendships, Hazing, Girl Power, Bullying, Healthy Living News
Rachel Simmons

Girls grow up in a world that largely depicts female aggression as comedy, and euphemizes their cruelty as a "rite of passage," developmental phase or "girls being girls."

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