Category Archives: community service
An Extra Year
The concept of taking an extra year during the course of one’s education is meeting with greater favor now than ever before. Whether it comes as a repeat year when entering a competitive independent school, a postgraduate year of study, … Continue reading
Getting Started
GETTING STARTED: A Pre-College Plan for Junior High Families In simplest terms, the value of education is at least threefold: the acquisition of knowledge; the access it provides to higher levels of the socio-economic spectrum; and the cash value of … Continue reading
Getting Started
GETTING STARTED: A Primer for Anxious Parents and the College Bound STARTING EARLY Every year, throughout America, a new crop of college-bound high school seniors begins the final and sometimes traumatic lap that will, for most, end with graduation and … Continue reading
VOLUNTEER TRIPS
“Fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindeness…” (Mark Twain) — Travel may be the single most efficient form of education. At once, young people see, hear, smell, taste cultures different from our own and are forced out of their comfort zones. … Continue reading