Quaker Schools - period ended 3.1.2006

Quaker Schools/Wilmington Friends School/Public schools striving to improve image/The News Journal/Wilmington/DE/USA/20-Feb-2006//... Gregory Williams sends two of his children to Delaware's oldest school: Wilmington Friends, a private Quaker school that dates back to 1748. ...

Quaker Schools/William Penn University/Student in the News/Pahrump Valley Times/Pahrump/NY/USA/22-Feb-2006//... William Penn University, located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, is a four-year liberal arts institution founded in 1873 by Quaker pioneers. ...

Quaker Schools/Sports/Westtown/Field house of dreams/Chester Daily Local Online/West Chester/PA/USA/27-Feb-2006//The Quaker institution held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new $9.8 million athletic facility, the construction for which will begin on Monday. ...

Quaker Schools/Religious Faith/Religious Diversity/Social Justice/Kent Chabotar responds to questions about Guilford's future/Guilfordian/Greensboro/NC/USA/24-Feb-2006//…As the student body expands, do you think Guilford's Quaker values will stop being as evident?

We're not as consensus-driven as we might be. There are certain areas that are not consensus driven. But this administration has done more for Quakerism in three years than my predecessors did in 20. For example, we have Quakerism 101. Part of the plan is Quaker. We're going to have FYE next year for employees, in which they're going to learn about our Quaker roots and Quaker business practice. We built new relations with Quaker meetings, and we actually had an open house last year for Quakers. We have affirmative action for Quakers. We are hiring for next year a recruiter to recruit Quaker students.

How do you think Guilford's Quaker values are evidenced here?

People ask what we do besides open class with a moment of silence, which is a fair question. I think the fact that the students are so "out there" in respect to social justice - I mean, the students are going to Louisiana over spring break to build houses. That's an easy sell here - it's oversubscribed. That, to me, is Quakerism.

And lastly, what's your favorite Quaker value?

Quakers and Catholics share the belief that faith alone does not save, good works do. Good works, as well as faith, save you. ….

Quaker Schools/Religious Diversity/Guilford//Guilford students take annual Interfaith tour/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/20-Feb-2006//... The National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont Triad sponsored the tour, which took the group to a Quaker meeting, a Jewish synagogue and a ...

Quaker Schools/Quaker Day Care Center/Tiny tots get keys, run own little city/Akron Beacon Journal/Akron/OH/USA/22-Feb-2006//... Sellers, who was chaperoning a field trip from Quaker Day Care of Willoughby Hills, said the activities are perfect for the youngsters. ...

Quaker Schools/Politics and Economics/Oakwood Friends School/Over river, a new view of global trade/Albany Times Union/Albany/NY/USA/28-Feb-2006//... conditions. Besides the three Capital Region schools, students from Oakwood Friends a Quaker school in Poughkeepsie, traveled to Mexico. ...

Quaker Schools/Penn Charter//After 30 years, head of Penn Charter will retire/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/26-Feb-2006//... J. Ball, who has been the head of the William Penn Charter School in East Falls for three decades, has announced that he will retire from the Quaker school at ...

Quaker Schools/Pacifism/Earlham//BSU prof named to 'most dangerous' list/Muncie Star Press/Muncie/IN/USA/20-Feb-2006//... As a teacher at a Quaker college, she points out that students enrolled in the peace studies program at Earlham expect to encounter views on pacifism. ...

Quaker Schools/Friends Seminary//Barefoot on Broadway/Back Stage/New York/NY/USA/17-Feb-2006//... After graduating from Manhattan Friends, a Quaker high school, Peet attended Columbia University, where she majored in history. ...

Quaker Schools/Conscientious Objection/Religious Faith/Lax/Following the leader/Guardian Unlimited,/London/England/UK/21-Feb-2006//... After a miserable time in prep school, Broomfield was sent to a Quaker boarding school. "My father was a Quaker," he says, "a bit ...

Quaker Schools/Child Abuse//Police investigate school abuse allegations/EducationGuardian.co.uk/London/England/UK/16-Feb-2006//... The Quaker-affiliated school, which educates nearly 500 boys and girls aged between three and 19, said it was cooperating fully with the inquiry. ...

Quaker Schools/Boarding School//THE MESSY LIFE OF LEE MILLER./New Republic/Washington/DC/USA/26-Feb-2006//... teenager. She cursed, she smoked, she performed practical jokes for which she was expelled from her Quaker boarding school. But ...

Quaker Schools///After 30 years, head of Penn Charter will retire/Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia/PA/USA/24-Feb-2006//.. Earl J. Ball, who has been the head of the William Penn Charter School in East Falls for three decades, has announced that he will retire from the Quaker school at the end of the 2006-07 academic year.

Ball, who turns 63 this weekend, is one of the longest-serving heads of private schools in the region. He was 33 when he was chosen to oversee the school. This year, Penn Charter has 865 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

The school will hire a consulting firm to help a committee drawn from the school's board of overseers conduct a national search for Ball's successor....