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The 2010 Green Cup Challenge Results Are In

3/12/2010

The 2010 Green Cup Challenge 2010 was a huge success!


Announcing Edward M. Kowalchick Memorial Fund

2/25/2010

In collaboration with the Kowalchick Family, the IECA Foundation has launched the Edward M.Kowalchick Memorial Fund


Study Abroad Programs Not Just for College Students Anymore

2/2/2010

Service-oriented study abroad trend emerging in college prep boarding schools


In Language Curriculum, Boarding Schools Look Forward, Yet Hold Fast

1/31/2010

College prep boarding schools incorporate new language offerings to adapt to a changing world.


TABS Offers Personalized 2009-2010 NowBoarding Magazine

1/7/2010

TABS has had such a wonderful response to the 2009-2010 NowBoarding Magazine & Directory, that we're offering personalized reprints to aid in student recruiting.


Thomas E. Wilcox Receives 2009 Ruzicka Compass Award

12/22/2009

The 2009 Ruzicka Compass Premier Leadership Award was presented to Thomas E. Wilcox at the TABS Annual Conference in Chicago on December 4.


TABS Issues New Strategic Plan

11/3/2009

Strategic Plan for 2009-2012 sets forth new framework and ambitious goals.


TABS Media Campaign Kicks Off

10/29/2009

The TABS Board has approved a pilot online media campaign for North America, launching in phases over the next several weeks.


2009 Asia Boarding Schools Fairs

9/27/2009

Now in its fifteenth year, the Asia Fairs bring together families and representatives from boarding schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad.


Announcing...

8/17/2009

The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) has launched an all-new BoardingSchools.com, the web’s best resource for all things boarding school.


TABS Launches Facebook and Twitter feeds

6/10/2009

You can now follow The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) on Facebook and Twitter. The expanded web presence of the Asheville-based organization complements the launch of an all-new BoardingSchools.com, the web’s leading resource for information about boarding schools and boarding school life.


Date Article Source
3/7/2010 Prep Basketball: Pomfret captures NEPSAC title, completes perfect season Norwich Bulletin
Pomfret School center Zenab Keita found it hard to put the words together. Czarina Hutchins was so overwhelmed, she lay down in the middle of the basketball court as people jumped all around her in celebration.
 
3/3/2010 Model United Nations TASIS - England
Each year, students from around the world research solutions to the various problems of the world, prepare their cases and arguments, all in anticipation of the Model United Nations that takes place each year in The Hague (THIMUN), Singapore, and in the United States.
 
3/3/2010 Westover School Dedicates New Solar Electric System Voices
Westover School dedicated its new 158kW solar electric (photovoltaic) system Friday, February 26, and celebrated the successful, student-led Green Cup Challenge effort to reduce energy use on the campus.
 
3/2/2010 CRMS student wins state Shakespeare Monologue Competition and is headed to NYC CRMS Blog
“NEW YORK IS CALLING.” Congratulations to Caelina Eldred-Thielen, who took first place this weekend at the State Shakespeare Monologue Competition at the University of Denver.
 
3/1/2010 Gould Snowboarder Heads to Premiere Pro Event - the US Open Gould Academy
Gould Academy’s Lauren Tamposi of Hollis, New Hampshire has qualified to compete against some of the best snowboarders in the country at the Burton US Open Series at Stratton Mountain, Vermont.
 
2/25/2010 Ross Institute praised by Bhutanese government The Daily Tell
The Ross Institute for Advanced Study and Innovation in Education, a New York-based not-for-profit school, is doing good things by teaching its students about cultures from all across the world.
 
2/17/2010 Two EHS Track & Field Athletes Are State Champions Episcopal High School
The boys and girls track and field teams headed to Richmond, Va., on Saturday, Feb. 13, to compete in the Virginia Independent Schools State Championships.
 
2/17/2010 Midland School students install campus solar panels Santa Ynez Valley News
Sophomore students at Midland School spent the last week getting muddy while installing an array of solar panels at the northeast end of the campus near Los Olivos.
 
2/16/2010 Alex Welton Receives Invitation From Obama Administration Stevenson School
The Obama Administration and the Department of Education has invited senior Alex Welton to apply to be a Presidential Scholar.
 
2/10/2010 PA Archaeologist Awarded National Geographic Society Grant Andover.edu
Donald Slater will pioneer mission to ancient Maya caves
 
2/8/2010 Balmoral Hall School faces off against Swiss Olympic Team CB Online
It was a night to remember Friday evening at the Dakota Community Centre in Winnipeg, and a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Balmoral Hall School (BH) Blazers Prep Hockey players, as they played against the Swiss Women's Olympic team in preparation for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games.
 
2/8/2010 CRMS graduate blazes Winter Olympic ski trail, for Ethiopia AspenDailyNews.com
On the streets of Ethiopia’s capital city, the blur of a lithe, dreadlocked figure cruising by on roller skis had become unusually common in recent days.
 
2/7/2010 Ivy walls and basketballs Concord Monitor
The arc of their basketball careers began together during their Gilford childhood. For Patrick Saunders and Kirk Crecco, that beginning was as sweet as the jump shot both would later develop, their basketball lives launching like a ball perfectly released from soft fingertips.
 
2/5/2010 Temple Grandin, Hampshire Country School Alumna, Subject of HBO Movie AdmissionsQuest
Autistic; she thinks in pictures; she has difficulty reading social situations with people; author; and noted large animal veterinarian.
 
1/27/2010 Innovative New Major Debuts at Interlochen Arts Academy PR Web
Beginning in the 2010-11 academic year, Interlochen Arts Academy will offer a major in comparative arts.
 
1/27/2010 Landmark Scores Big in 2010 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards LandmarkSchool.org
Landmark High School students received an impressive 23 Gold and Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions from the 2010 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards.
 
1/20/2010 Bloustein Scholars named Peddie.org
Peddie is proud to announce that 13 seniors were selected as Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars in the Garden State Scholarship Program.
 
1/20/2010 Nine Students Receive Awards in Scholastic Art Competition AshevilleSchool.org
Nine Asheville School students recently received awards in the 2010 Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards held at the Asheville Art Museum.
 
1/19/2010 Bolles student from Ponte Vedra wins honor Jacksonville.com
Ponte Vedra Beach resident Walker Wulbern has received Congressional citations for helping refugee families resettle in Florida, among other initiatives.
 
1/18/2010 Lawrenceville School Receives $60 Million Gift From Former English Teacher Philanthropy News Digest
The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, has announced a $60 million bequest from the estate of Henry C. Woods, a member of the class of '40 and a former English teacher and trustee at the school, and his wife, Janie ('40).
 
1/17/2010 Hand-made African scarves help families Detroit Free Press
The hand-woven scarves being sold at Optik Birmingham have a story behind them that's as interesting as the scarves are to look at.
 
1/11/2010 New college to bring life back to old school MassLive.com
Northfield-Mount Hermon School has delivered on its promise.
 
12/16/2009 Northfield Campus nmhschool.org
On December 16, Northfield Mount Hermon announced that Hobby Lobby had purchased the Northfield campus, where C.S. Lewis Foundation will establish C.S. Lewis College. The move ensures the preservation of historic campus landmarks and that the beloved campus will continue as a center of education and
 
12/10/2009 Boarding has benefits for college-bound Chattanooga Times Free Press
As the holidays approach, so do college application deadlines for high school seniors across the country. At this point, a senior's greatest apprehension about college is not being admitted to one.
 
11/13/2009 Hun School Entrepreneur Launches Social Network Site HunSchool.org
Herwig Konings ’11 considers himself something of an entrepreneur. The Hun School junior, in an effort to provide an open forum for networking and collaboration between other entrepreneurs, launched discoverastartupidea.com (DASI) on Wednesday, November 4th.
 
11/10/2009 Milton Hershey School Designated a 'Promise Place' by America's Promise Alliance PR Newswire
Milton Hershey School (MHS) today announced that they have been designated a Promise Place by America's Promise Alliance (the Alliance).
 
10/28/2009 Olympic Torch lights Trinity College School The Independent
A handful of Trinity College School (TCS) students will join 12,000 other Canadians in carrying the Olympic torch leading up to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
 
10/21/2009 Avon Old Farms School Unveils the Largest Solar Installation at a Private School in New England PressReleasePoint.com
The Avon Old Farms School celebrated their newly installed 205kW solar electric system, which is the largest operating solar array of any private school in Connecticut and all of New England.
 
10/14/2009 Chatham Hall Receives Largest Gift in History of Girls' Schools PR Newswire
Chatham Hall, an internationally renowned girls' boarding school, has received a $31 million gift from the estate of alumna Elizabeth Beckwith Nilsen, Class of 1931. This is the largest single gift to any girls' independent school.
 
10/1/2009 Midland School Awarded California's Highest Environmental Honor Midland School
Midland School received a 2009 Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award (GEELA).
 
9/22/2009 Hotchkiss’ Two 2009 MacArthur Fellows The Hotchiss School
Two of the 24 MacArthur Fellows for 2009 are Hotchkiss alumni: Rodney R. H. “Rackstraw” Downes ’58, a painter, and Theodore Zoli III ’84, a structural engineer. The selection of the 2009 Fellows was announced in September by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
 
8/28/2009 Brennan Bits brennanblog.edublogs.org
New Head of School Sean Brennan will chronicle his first 100 days right here on BrennanBits starting this September!
 
8/13/2009 Kents Hill's College Counseling Director Elected as President Elect New England Association for College Admission Counseling Marketwire
Anne Richardson, Director of College Counseling at Kents Hill School, was recently elected as President Elect of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling (NEACAC).
 
8/2/2009 Woodside Priory keeps boarding school tradition San Francisco Chronicle
At the end of the school day, as their classmates pile into cars for the commute home, 50 students at the Woodside Priory, near Stanford University, turn and lug their backpacks uphill. These 30 high school boys and 20 girls are already home. They call themselves "the dormers,"...
 
8/2/2009 Brenau Academy debuts 'early college' option AccessNorthGA.com
Starting with the new school year, students who enroll at Brenau Academy by their 10th grade years will be able to graduate with both a high school diploma and enough credits to qualify for a two-year college degree from the Academy's sister higher education institution.
 
7/15/2009 Appleby College Students Head to China to Help Teach Tibetan Primary School Students Market Wire (press release) – USA
Thirteen Appleby College students and teachers will be travelling to China on Friday, July 17 with the ...
 
6/19/2009 American Hebrew Academy Gets $5 Million Gift Jewish Federation (via Google Alerts)
Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt recently donated $5 million to the American Hebrew Academy, one of the largest single gifts in the academy's history...
 
Date Article Source
3/10/2010 Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools The New York Times
A panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation’s public school children should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high schoo
 
3/4/2010 National Survey Suggests Students Gain Little Help from High School Counselors in College Search IECA Blog
A new national survey released yesterday by the non-profit research organization Public Agenda, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, paints a depressing picture of college advising.
 
3/3/2010 The case for grade translation The Daily Princetonian
We talk about grade deflation all the time. It’s just what we do as Princeton students.
 
3/2/2010 How Schools Are Using Twitter About.com
It has been fascinating to watch how schools are using Twitter. I started following about 200 hundred schools a year ago.
 
3/2/2010 Scholar’s School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate The New York Times
Diane Ravitch, the education historian who built her intellectual reputation battling progressive educators and served in the first Bush administration’s Education Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow-motion about-face on almost every stand she once took on American schooling.
 
3/2/2010 Building a Better Teacher The New York Times
ON A WINTER DAY five years ago, Doug Lemov realized he had a problem.
 
2/27/2010 States Move to Revoke Charities’ Tax Exemptions Then New York Times
Faced with steep declines in tax revenue, an increasing number of states and localities are considering eliminating various tax exemptions for nonprofit groups.
 
2/23/2010 Advice From Students Who Have Been Through It The New York Times
As Nicole and I walked down the long, narrow aisle of her high school auditorium one recent evening, she darted to sit with a friend while I went for a seat up close.
 
2/17/2010 High Schools to Offer Plan to Graduate 2 Years Early The New York Times
Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college.
 
2/8/2010 Boarding School Review Can Help Find the Right Foundation Articles2Win.com
A boarding school review can help you refine your search for a school. There are over 1500 boarding schools all over the world with over 370 of them being in the U. S. Alone. Boarding school review estimate that in U. S. Alone over 42, 500 children study here.
 
2/7/2010 For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw The New York Times
Precious Holt, a 12th grader with dangly earrings and a SpongeBob pillow, climbs on the yellow school bus and promptly falls asleep for the hour-plus ride to Sandhills Community College.
 
1/29/2010 Jill Berry: Five things I have learned BBC News
Head teacher and past president of the Girls' Schools Association Jill Berry describes five of the most important things she has learned, in our new occasional series.
 
1/22/2010 Reasons Why Educators Should Network Converge
The period of isolationism in the United States ended during World War II, but while political isolation is no more, educational isolation is still prevalent in public schools today.
 
1/20/2010 Kids' electronic media use jumps to 53 hours a week USA Today
Kids these days spend so much time with electronic media — cellphones, iPods, video games and computers — that it might as well be a full-time job: more than 53 hours a week, a study finds.
 
1/20/2010 Foreign Languages Fade in Class — Except Chinese The New York Times
Thousands of public schools stopped teaching foreign languages in the last decade, according to a government-financed survey — dismal news for a nation that needs more linguists to conduct its global business and diplomacy.
 
1/19/2010 Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education The Washington Post
President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $1.35 billion in his 2011 budget proposal to extend an education grant program for states, although the Education Department remains months away from announcing its first round of awards, senior administration officials said.
 
1/17/2010 NBOA Selects New Executive Director NBOA.net
The NBOA Board is pleased to announce the selection of Jeffrey N. Shields, CAE, as Executive Director of NBOA. Jeff will be only the second person to serve in this role, succeeding founding Executive Director, Sarah Daignault, beginning March 1, 2010.
 
1/15/2010 A Facebook Movement, Against Mom and Dad The New York Times
They feel her pain. At the Spence School and Greenwich High and Fullerton Union High and Nyack High and Narragansett High, teenagers and near-teenagers, hundreds of them, are waving a virtual flag for Tess Chapin, a 15-year-old from Sunnyside, Queens, who has been grounded for five weeks.
 
12/28/2009 Washington area private schools compete in green contest The Washington Post
Norwood School started buying wind power. Potomac School converted its big yellow school buses to run on biodiesel. Sidwell Friends School kicked it up a notch with a green middle-school building that brought conversations about sewage treatment to the lips of D.C. high society.
 
12/20/2009 The Advanced Placement Juggernaut The New York Times
Advanced Placement classes, once open to only a very small number of top high school students around the country, have grown enormously in the past decade.
 
12/8/2009 Extra Creditors StyleWeekly.com
There’s a hint of anxiety to the otherwise soothing words Sally K. Boese uses to assess what, she says, are the minimal effects that hard-hitting job losses and the broader economic pall are having on local private schools.
 
12/7/2009 New Policy Allows Students To Bury Bad SAT Scores Hartford Courant
For years, high school seniors have had to send all their SAT scores to their targeted colleges. A dismal or mediocre score in the spring of junior year came back to haunt them even if their fall scores were substantially better.
 
11/30/2009 The best and brightest take a detour The Washington Post
Kira Cassels applied to 11 colleges and got in to every one. The kitchen of her Laurel home came to resemble a high school guidance office, the breakfast table buried beneath brochures and financial aid forms from destinations such as the University of Virginia and Franklin & Marshall College.
 
11/16/2009 Record Numbers of International Students in U.S. Higher Education IIE Network
The number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by 8% to an all-time high of 671,616 in the 2008/09 academic year, according to the Open Doors report, which is published annually by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with support from the
 
11/16/2009 College Ivy Sprouts at a Connecticut Prison The New York Times
In many ways it was just another day, another class of Wesleyan University, one of the more selective colleges in the Northeast. The topic was multiculturalism in schools.
 
11/8/2009 Top 10 College Admissions Tips TheDailyBeast.com
As early applications come due this week, Kathleen Kingsbury asks admissions officers: What advice would you give prospective students that they’ve probably never heard before?
 
11/7/2009 Prep Schools Face Cuts in Student Aid The New York Times
For now, the nation’s biggest preparatory schools are protecting students like Ivy Alphonse-Leja, who depends on financial aid to attend the Lawrenceville School.
 
11/3/2009 Private school families say boarding makes sense in Washington region The Washington Post
For Sean Woo, boarding his sons at St. Albans School was an easy choice. His two teenagers got the prestige, the rigorous academics and an around-the-clock minder all in one package.
 
11/2/2009 Prep Schools Leading The Way When It Comes To Going Green Hartford Courant
The new, $34.6 million Armour Academic Center at the Westminster School is the kind of gleaming monument to achievement and prosperity that has made Connecticut prep schools so widely known.
 
10/20/2009 High school 24/7: Boarding school is right choice for some teens KnoxNews.com
While the very mention of boarding school would intimidate some students or hold no appeal at all, others come to realize that boarding schools can open the door for exciting and empowering possibilities.
 
10/20/2009 Admissions Flexibility Inside Higher Ed
A new survey suggests modest movement by colleges away from standards that use strict measures of academic performance and potential.
 
10/14/2009 Touring a Campus on a Bicycle Built for 7 The New York Times
It is marketed on Alfred University’s Web site as “one-of-a-kind tour,” a seven-seat red bicycle cruising the grounds of the western New York State college, powered by the pedaling of prospective students and parents.
 
10/12/2009 Vermont Field House Becomes First Net-Zero Energy Secondary School Building in Nation The Putney School
The Putney School, a college preparatory boarding high school in southern Vermont, cut the ribbon Saturday on its 16,800 square foot net-zero energy field house that will produce as much energy as it uses over the course of a year.
 
9/27/2009 The Next Admissions Challenge: Evaluating Online Education The Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges pay admissions officials to predict the future, and that future is likely to include a revolution in the way many high-school students learn. ...
 
9/24/2009 The College Calculation The New York Times
The most subversive question about higher education has always been whether the college makes the student or the student makes the college. Sure, Harvard graduates make more money than graduates of just about any other college. ...
 
9/18/2009 More Asian Universities Cast a Net for Foreign Students The New York Times
Attending a university overseas has long been an aspiration for many Chinese. ...
 
9/17/2009 Boarding schools make room for diversity Chicago Sun-Times
When her mother presented the idea to Stormi Abrams-Haggard as she completed eighth grade at a Chicago public school, Stormi wasn't quite sure what to think of it. ...
 
9/17/2009 House Passes Bill to Expand College Aid The New York Times
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that expands federal aid to college students while ending federal subsidies to private lenders. ...
 
9/13/2009 Schools Dump Textbooks for iPods, Laptops ABC News
For generations, school meant books -- lots of books. But not anymore. Around the country, from high school to grad school, textbooks are getting harder to find. Technology has made the library something that can fit into the palm of your hand. ...
 
8/31/2009 Scrap the SAT? CNN.com
CNN's Carol Costello looks at why many think the SAT is not worth all the angst. ...
 
8/25/2009 Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet PR Newswire
Survey on Twitter usage among college faculty reveals how some faculty are using Twitter, and why others feel it has no place in an academic setting ...
 
8/18/2009 Colleges Seek to Remake the Campus Tour The New York Times
For as long as high school seniors have been visiting colleges, it seems, there have been tour guides walking backward in front of them, breathlessly reciting statistics from a script while, hopefully, avoiding tree roots and other hazards. ...
 
7/20/2009 Rise in Private College Tuition at 31-Year Low StarTribune.com
The price of a private college education will rise less than it has in decades. ...
 
7/20/2009 Online Schools are Changing Education Columbia City Paper
Two more online charter schools will open next month bringing the total number of South Carolina students who attend virtual schools to about 5,000. Another 3,000 South Carolina students in traditional public schools will take at least one class online. ...
 
7/20/2009 Your First Year of College: 25 Tips to Help You Survive and Thrive Your Freshman Year and Beyond QuintCareers.com
Perhaps you were class president in high school. Or perhaps you were a member of the honor society. You could have graduated in the top percentile of your graduating class; perhaps you were even valedictorian. ...
 
6/18/2009 Dialing Up Donations InsideHigherEd.com
The phone rings. It's the cheerful voice of a student attending your alma mater, asking for a second of your time and a chunk of your change -- all major credit cards accepted, thanks. ...
 
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