Private Schools September 2005 Archive

While I was in Brantford, Ontario, recently, visiting my mother for her 82nd birthday, I spotted this article reporting an alleged hazing incident at my alma mater, McGill University. Why ... Read More

As Test Scores Jump, Raleigh Credits Integration by Income is Alan Finder's report in the New York Times on the Wake County, North Carolina school system's results with economic integration. ... Read More

"Dear God, give comfort, strength and peace to those most affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, especially any who have lost or are separated from loved ones. May the ache ... Read More

Did you know that beating is legal in 22 states? Unbelievable but true. Jordan Riak is the Executive Director of Project NoSpank. What he has to say about corporal punishment ... Read More

As if the post-Katrina political climate isn't super-charged enough, the federal DOE has included $488 million in its Hurricane Katrina aid package for parents of private school children displaced by ... Read More

What grade do you teach? Do you use technology in your lessons? Does your school use a Web-based grade book? If you are a teacher, you need to show your ... Read More

These are the best private schools in British Columbia, Canada, in the opinion of your About.com Guide. The Fraser Institute rankings are good enough for me. Listing is alphabetical as ... Read More

I was searching for pictures of New Orleans schools to include in my blog. Up pops a CNN report from August 2005. It describes utter financial chaos and mismanagement in ... Read More

The Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans. Little damage is reported. Updates on other NO schools Private schools typically receive their annual tuition fees in two instalments: in August ... Read More

A reader sent this email. My response follows: "I was curious why you did not include any information on homeschooling for displaced families of hurricane Katrina. I think traumatized children ... Read More

When I attended McGill back in the '60's, I researched my papers using card catalogs (walls of them) and by ordering books from the stacks. It was a tedious business ... Read More

Eileen sends this : Hello, I am trying to locate anyone from All Saints Catholic School, New Orleans -- an administrator, the principal, Fr. Joseph Champion... Can you please help me? Eileen --------------------------------------------- News Report ... Read More

I held my breath last Monday as Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coast. All those schools and universities damaged and destroyed. All those students with no place to go to ... Read More

The scope of Katrina's devastation becomes more alarming by the hour. Thousands have perished. Hundreds of thousands are homeless. Yet, while we struggle with the rescue and recovery efforts, we ... Read More

The NAIS (National Association Of Independent Schools) is doing a terrific job of getting the word out about schools which have places for students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. If your ... Read More

The ISED-L Archives has postings from schools which have offered places to students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. This is a wonderful start but we really need hundreds more schools to ... Read More

Take a look at this raw footage taken from New Orleans Channel 38's helicopter. The scope of Katrina's devastation is appalling. The response to the disaster in the Gulf states continues ... Read More