Quaker Schools - period ended 9.15.2006

Quaker Schools/San Francisco Friends School/Deep Learning/Jen Brokaw on picking a Quaker school for her non-Quaker kids/San Francisco Chronicle/San Francisco/CA/USA/20-Aug-06//... Friends from preschool said, "There's going to be a new school opening up. It's the first Quaker school on the West Coast.". The ...

Quaker Schools/Greenwood Friends School/News in brief/Sunbury Daily Item/Sunbury/PA/USA/21-Aug-06//MILLVILLE — Brian Johnson, of Milton, has been named a trustee at the Greenwood Friends School, an independent Quaker school offering educational programs ...

Quaker Schools/Greene Street Friends School/Marshall, Ed//No more school days/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/31-Aug-06//... Her sentiments were echoed by Edward Marshall, head of Greene Street Friends School, a Quaker elementary school a block away.

"It fulfilled a need for families looking for education and a religious education that is different from the Quaker education we provide," said Marshall, whose school has worked closely with St. Barnabas for years.

"There is no doubt in my mind that the need is still there, and the school in not being there is causing a tremendous amount of distress for children and their families."t ...

Quaker Schools/Bootham///Record results hope for GCSEs/York Press/York/England/UK/24-Aug-06//... "Head teacher Jonathan Taylor said: "It is another set of very good results as expected - with both the top achievers and the middle rankers having cause for celebration today.

"I believe that it is Bootham's unique atmosphere, based on its Quaker ethos of warmth and care for the individual child, which creates the environment for productive work and sustained learning." ...

Quaker Schools/Arts/Literature//A mind of his own/Minneapolis Star Tribune/Minneapolis/MN/USA/25-Aug-06//... For these acts of parental love, Treuer, a novelist, essayist and University of Minnesota literature professor, drew from the treasury of his complex and mixed heritage: His father, Robert Treuer, grew up in a Jewish family in Vienna and fled the Nazi occupation of Austria at age 12 -- landing first in a "Dickensian snake pit of an orphanage" in England, then in a Quaker boarding school in Scotland and eventually in the United States, where he became a writer, teacher and tree farmer. His mother, Margaret Seelye Treuer, grew up in an extended Ojibwe family on Leech Lake Reservation, graduated from CUA Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C., and is a tribal judge for the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. The two, now divorced, raised their four children on a tree farm at the edge of Leech Lake Reservation near Bemidji, Minn. ...

Quaker Schools/Alexandria Friends School//Class of Friends/Alexandria Gazette Packet/Alexandria/VA/USA/25-Aug-06//For Will Stewart, headmaster of Alexandria’s new Quaker school, the “silent meeting” is a chance for his students to escape the hectic pace of modern life ...

Quaker Schools/Waldorf Schools/Hillsboro Friends Church/Swallowtail School plans to build facility in Hillsboro/Hillsboro Argus/Hillsboro/OR/USA/16-Aug-06//... Swallowtail in 2000 moved into space leased by the Hillsboro Friends Church in Hillsboro after the county rejected their proposal for a school in Gales Creek. ...