Quaker Schools - period ended 11.15.2006

Quaker Schools / The Mount School / Murray, Lindley // Tourism chiefs chasing a slice of American pie / York Press / York / England / UK /13-Nov-06//... Lindley Murray was an American Quaker from Pennsylvania, who moved to York for health reasons. He became a leading Quaker in York ...

Quaker Schools / Standardized Testing / Earlham College / Top education official rejects criticism / Washington Times / Washington / DC / USA /14-Nov-06/ UPI /... Douglas Bennett, president of the Quaker-founded Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., expressed concern that the recommendations, which include tracking ...

Quaker Schools / Standardized Testing / Earlham College / Top education official rejects criticism / Market-Day.net / Phoenix / AZ / USA /14-Nov-06/ UPI /... Douglas Bennett, president of the Quaker-founded Earlham College in Richmond, Ind., expressed concern that the recommendations, which include tracking ...

Quaker Schools / Religious Diversity / Northern Virginia Friends School / Friends Teaching Friends / Vienna/Oakton Connection / Vienna / VA / USA /2-Nov-06//... That is the goal at the Northern Virginia Friends School, the only Quaker elementary school in the Northern Virginia area, said Emily Pavot. …...She noted that the small student body comprises children from a variety of religious backgrounds. "There's actually only one Quaker student in the school," she said. The holidays of all religions are observed and studied. This is both out of respect for students of various backgrounds and as part of the school's goal of fostering an attitude of global citizenship, said Lutomski. ..

Quaker Schools / REAL School /// School emphasizes 'simplicity, service, stewardship' / MaineToday.com / Portland / ME / USA /11-Nov-06//... Thursdays are the days when the school's 29 students -- ages 3 to 11 -- gather with teachers, staff members and occasional visitors for a Quaker meeting. ...

Quaker Schools / Quaker History / Guilford College / Greene, Nathanael / Author David McCullough to speak on Nathanael Greene / Greensboro News Record / Greensboro / NC / USA /3-Nov-06//... He finds Greene fascinating, stressing the military would reject him today because he was lame, with a noticeable limp.

He was a fighting Quaker from a prominent family. His break with pacifism, however, bring expulsion from his Rhode Island meeting house. Without any military training, he became a general at 32 after making himself an expert on strategy and tactics through books.

"He was brilliant,’’ McCullough said. "He was the best general we had. He was better at tactics and strategy than Washington. Washington acknowledges that."

While Greene did well in the war’s northern campaign with a unit that stood out for its discipline, he served in Washington’s shadow. In the South, he was commander of American forces. He turned defeat into victory at Guilford Courthouse in 1781. The winning British suffered losses that later led to their surrender at Yorktown.

McCullough believes if Greene hadn’t died at 41, he would have "made a superb president. He was very intellectual and had the salient qualities of leadership.’’

Although his Quaker upbringing discouraged higher education, Greene became self-educated with an impressive library.

"He wrote wonderfully," says the Yale-educated McCullough. "He was a good speaker. He knew the welfare of his people (soldiers) and he kept that utmost in mind. He had known failure. The best leaders are those who have experience with failure...". ...

Quaker Schools / Mount School /// Top schools aid needy children / Yorkshire Post Today / York / England / UK /7-Nov-06//... Most independent schools already offer free or heavily subsidised places to children from poorer backgrounds, and many privately feel they do not receive the credit they deserve.
Among the independent schools taking part in the new project is the Mount School, a day and boarding school for girls in York. Its A-level results put it among the top 10 independent schools in Yorkshire this summer.
Headmistress Diana Grant said: "This is an opportunity for pupils irrespective of background who have particular care needs that perhaps the state sector or their families cannot cope with.
"As a Quaker school we have always been focused on the needs of the individual and we have the capacity to accommodate a small number of children in those target groups." ...

Quaker Schools / Humanitarian Assistance // Top schools aid needy children / Yorkshire Post Today / York / England / UK /7-Nov-06//... Headmistress Diana Grant said: "This is an opportunity for pupils irrespective of background who have particular care needs that perhaps the state sector or their families cannot cope with.
"As a Quaker school we have always been focused on the needs of the individual and we have the capacity to accommodate a small number of children in those target groups."

Quaker Schools / Haverford College // Incumbency Is Golden, But Not Solid / TheDay / Stonington / CT / USA /2-Nov-06//... guy, with exemplary constituent service, enviable energy and engaging wit, and a predilection, despite graduating from Haverford College, a Quaker school, to ...

Quaker Schools / Harford Friends School // Friends School / Baltimore Sun / Baltimore / MD / USA /12-Nov-06//…Friends school // Harford Friends School will hold an open house for prospective students and their families from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 1212 Main St., Darlington. The middle school's academics and other programs, based on the Quaker philosophy, will be introduced. 410-457-5099. ….

Quaker Schools / Earlham College // College gets lowdown on how students do / USA Today / New York / NY / USA /13-Nov-06//... Earlham, a small Quaker-founded liberal arts school, began looking more closely at measuring student learning when seeking re-accreditation in 1993 from the ...

Quaker Schools / Consensus / Earlham College / A Green Future / Inside Higher Ed / Washington / DC / USA /14-Nov-06//... for others. Quaker influenced institutions like Earlham College instill respect for consensus-based community governance. There .

Quaker Schools / Business / Rockwood Friends School / Leaders & Success / Investor's Business Daily / New York / NY / USA /1-Nov-06//... The young Hill had nine delightful years at a Quaker school in Rockwood. His father's untimely death forced Hill to leave school at 15 to work as a clerk to support the family.

He'd soaked up plenty in those nine years, excelling at mathematics and English — potent skills in his later, self-made success. "He was not well-educated but he was very bright," Hofsommer said. When he left school he was skilled in geometry, algebra and land surveying. ...

Quaker Schools / Arts / Music / Friends University / Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' to usher in the holiday season / The Wichita Eagle / Wichita / KS / USA /3-Nov-06//For this David Lean, the son of a Quaker and an accountant; a boy raised in Croydon, where suburbia met the countryside, and arguably the most handsome of film directors--he was married six times in his eighty-three years. Henry VIII is his only rival. When the English reader gets that part of Lean's history, he knows that the chap had a real problem with the emotion thing.

Divorce is a British habit nowadays, of course. But an essential skepticism about it comes from Dr. Johnson, who, seeing a man who had been unhappy in marriage but re-married immediately after his wife died, thought that "it was the triumph of hope over experience." Lean's father and mother separated when he was in his teens, and on doing so the father quit his religion in the fear that the divorce would be looked at askance by other Quakers. (As a Quaker, young David had not been allowed to visit the cinema.) ...

Quaker Schools /// Tales From Africa / Duke University / Raleigh / NC / USA /1-Nov-06//... community.”. As a kindergarten teacher in a Quaker school, Alston rediscovered her verve for performing in front of an audience. ...

Quaker Schools /// Simon’s Rock College of Bard announces the creation of the ... / iBerkshires.com, / Pittsfield / MA / USA /1-Nov-06//... Emily Fisher, grew up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, a minister’s daughter, and she attended Quaker schools. ...