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• Skipping a grade in school

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Academics, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, First Grade, Firstgrade, Kindergarten, Montessori, Private School, Privateschool, Public School, Publicschool, School, Second Grade, Secondgrade, Skip First Grade, Skip Grade, Skipfirstgrade, Skipgrade, Skipping Grades, Skippi

  under: Teachers, Preschool, Elementary school, Public school, Private school, Going to school, 6-7 yearsIn my state, a child must be five years old on September 1st in order to enroll in kindergarten. Ellie missed that date by three weeks, meaning she couldn't officially start kindergarten until she was almost six years old. Instead, she

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• Special ed...for profit?

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Education, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, High School, Highschool, Middle School, Middleschool, Private School, Privateschool, Public School, Publicschool, School, Special Ed, Special Education, Specialed, Specialeducation

  under: Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Private schoolThe worlds of for-profit business and education seem almost fundamentally at odds. However, one man has managed to bring special ed services to almost 8,000 students -- and he's making money in the process. Mark Claypool used to be a social worker, but got

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• Children and eating disorders

  Published: September 17, 2007, 5:26 am

  Tags: Anorexic, Broccoli, Bulimic, Eating Disorder, Eatingdisorder, Education, Fad Dieting, Faddieting, Fashion, Fruits, Issues Food, Issueswithfood, Junk Food, Junkfood, Kenyon College, Kenyoncollege, Models, Pregnant, Private School, Privateschool, Specific Foods, Specificfoods

  & Nutrition, Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Eating, 8-9 years, Preschooler, Pre-teen, Teenager, Peer pressure We all knew that girl in high school, the one who never ate anything. She was pencil thin, with paper thin hair and skin. She was anorexic or bulimic, but no one ever talked about it. She withered away right in front

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• Poor Little Rich Girls: "I Was Raised On The Upper West Side And Always Thought I Was Poor"

  Published: September 24, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Chapin, Gossip Girls, Hewitt, Poor Little Rich Girls, Private School, So High School

  Kari Brandt, the student body president of the Upper East Side's prestigious all-girls Hewitt School, wants the world to know that "Hewitt students do not characterize popularity by looks, money or...

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• Real Life Gossip Girls: Chapin Speaks! "Hewitt Was For The Dumb Girls"

  Published: September 25, 2007, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Chapin, Hewitt, Poor Little Rich Girls, Private School, Real Life Gossip Girls, Spence, Top

  Yesterday, we heard from an alumna of Manhattan's all-girl Hewitt School whose classmates made her feel poor because she didn't hobnob with the King of Morocco. But, she said, those rich bitches...

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• Real Life Gossip Girls: "In Advisory Today, We Talked About The Ignort Fools Who Wrote The Article Lying About How Bad Chapin Is"

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:34 am

  Tags: Chapin, Ignort, Private School, Real Life Gossip Girls

  The last we heard from Manhattan girls school Chapin was an alumna's letter that told of Prep for Prep girls beating each other with lacrosse sticks and "several coke addicts, the usual bulimics and...

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• No, I cannot help with [insert name of school volunteer thing here]

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Elementary School, Private School, School, Volunteering, Working Moms

  under: Elementary school, Going to school, Working from home, Working momsMy sons go to a small Catholic school. This school relies heavily on parent involvement, both because it's good for parents to be part of the school community, and because having volunteers take care of various jobs around the campus keeps costs down. I am all in

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• Jill Lewis - Private School Teacher In Brazoria County Sexually Assaults Student

  Published: February 7, 2008, 11:30 pm

  Tags: Statutory Rape, Sexual Assault, Texas, Charged, Schools, School, Charges, Student, Brazoria County, Friendswood, Jill Lewis, Teacher, Lewis, Police, Private School

  -- Jill Lewis, a 26 year old private school teacher from Dickinson Texas has been charged with having an 'Improper relationship between an educator and a student'.Lewis, who teaches at a Brazoria County school turned herself in to Friendswood police Thursday morning after she was accused of befriending and having sexual contact with a 17 year old

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• In District or Out?

  Published: February 22, 2008, 4:10 pm

  Tags: California, Education, Movies, Cello, Asd, Asperger, Autism, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Private School, Public School, School, Track

  needs transportation, and a school bus with a drive and a bus matron can cost something like $20,000. I used to think it would be best for Charlie to be in a private school, of which New Jersey has many. The private schools seemed to have everything figured out, at least until a child turns 21. But my own district seems to be making a lot of

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• Meet the Horace Mann Scandal Crew! [Exclusive]

  Published: April 2, 2008, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Class Rage, Exclusive, Horace Mann, New York Magazine, Private School Scandals, Rich Kids, The Riches, Top

  So you read the New York cover story about the mess at high-falutin' private prep school Horace Mann, but maybe you wanted more. Maybe you wanted to meet the faces behind the names. You are in luck,...

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• My First Post - My Philosophy of Education

  Published: May 26, 2008, 4:38 pm

  Tags: Discussion, Education, History, Independent School, Independent Schools, Passion, Philosophy, Plato, Private School, Private Schools, Professor, School, Seminar, Teach, Teacher, Teaching

  began teaching at a boarding school in Rhode Island. What amazes me as I read it is that my philosophy has not changed over the years. Most of what I found exciting about teaching in private schools in my first year remains true today. I would love to hear from teachers, students or anyone who has ideas about education and the teaching

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• Not the Rule, It's the Exception

  Published: June 11, 2008, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Education, New York, Asd, Asperger, Autism, Autism Blog, Charter School, Disabilities Blog, Family, Family Blog, Manhattan, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Private School, Public School, Schools

  has been a new autism school, the Soaring Eagle Academy in Chicago (which uses the DIR (Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based)/Floor time approach), as well as a number of autism schools in Manhattan, including a charter school, New York Center for Autism; a private school, the Rebecca School; and public school

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• David Robinson - The Carver Academy

  Published: June 23, 2008, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Random, Carver Academy, David Robinson, David Robinson School, Robinson Carver Academy, San Antonio, San Antonio Private School, The Carver Academy

  is running a non-profit private school that gives all children the equal chance to gain a unique and varied education. The school is called The Carver Academy and was founded in 2001 by David Robinson and his wife Valerie. The children who attend The Carver Academy have a core curriculum that consists of subjects such as reading,

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• Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up

  Published: July 4, 2008, 3:00 am

  Tags: Politics, Dizzy S Ten Post Round Up, Economy, Hypocrisy, News, Random Goodies, Random News, Scandal, Snark, War, Weird, Dalton, Elite, Manhattan, Private, School, Katy, Hudson, , Christian, Singer, And, Daughter, Authorize, Racial, Profiling, The, Justice, Department, Federal

  Hey, hey, it's Independence Day and I just happen to be feeling a bit of that independence since this is actually the second regular work day that I have off from work.

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