Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, Va., is the top-ranked public high school in the country.
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Gifted education has long faced accusations of being elitist and excluding students of color. Will new changes prepare more students for elite colleges, or will they water down current curriculums?
In interviews, female teachers at three all-boy schools in three capital cities have disclosed instances of sexism from students, male colleagues and parents.
Ireland players during a team training session at St Kevin’s College, in Toorak, June 12, 2018.
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In the early 20th century, elite boys’ schools fostered military cadets, encouraged martial virtue among those they saw as future defenders of the empire and nation, and prized toughness.
Trinity’s students, parents and alumni are seething after the sacking of longstanding deputy headmaster.
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Elite exam schools are some of the least diverse public schools in the US. Here’s how colleges like Harvard could teach high schools like Stuyvesant to improve their admissions process.
Mark Zuckerberg is, quite famously, a college dropout. But his case is the exception – not the rule.
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While the media glamorizes famous college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, the reality is that most successful people in the U.S. went to – and finished – college.
What makes gifted kids from advantaged families get ahead?
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America’s low-income but high-achieving kids fail to find the necessary resources, and consequently fall behind. This has huge implications for innovation as well as the GDP.