Peterson's Private Secondary Schools: Junior Boarding Schools provides the help parents need to find the right junior boarding school for their child. Readers will find dozens of school profiles plus links to informative two-page in-depth descriptions written by some of the schools. Helpful information includes the school's area of specialization, setting, affiliation, accreditation, subjects offered, special academic programs, tuition, financial aid, student profile, faculty, academic programs, student life, admission information, contacts, and much more.

Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of the long-established British and colonial preparatory and public boarding school tradition. Richly illustrated with pictures and the narratives of adult ex-boarders in psychotherapy, the book demonstrates how some forms of enduring distress in adult life may be traced back to the early losses of home and family. Developed from clinical research and informed by attachment and child development theories ‘Boarding School Syndrome’ is a new term that offers a theoretical framework on which the psychotherapeutic treatment of ex-boarders may build. Divided into four parts, History: In the Name of Privilege; Exile and Healing; Broken Attachments: A Hidden Trauma, and The Boarding School Body, the book includes vivid case studies of ex-boarders in psychotherapy. Their accounts reveal details of the suffering endured: loss, bereavement and captivity are sometimes compounded by physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Here, Joy Schaverien shows how many boarders adopt unconscious coping strategies including dissociative amnesia resulting in a psychological split between the 'home self' and the 'boarding school self'. This pattern may continue into adult life, causing difficulties in intimate relationships, generalized depression and separation anxiety amongst other forms of psychological distress. Boarding School Syndrome demonstrates how boarding school may damage those it is meant to be a reward and discusses the wider implications of this tradition. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, art psychotherapists, counsellors and others interested in the psychological, cultural and international legacy of this tradition including ex-boarders and their partners.

Peterson's Private Secondary Schools: Traditional Day and Boarding Schools is everything parents need to find the right day or boarding private secondary school for their child. Readers will find hundreds of school profiles plus links to informative two-page in-depth descriptions written by some of the schools. Helpful information includes the school's area of specialization, setting, affiliation, accreditation, subjects offered, special academic programs, tuition, financial aid, student profile, faculty, academic programs, student life, admission information, contacts, and much more.

Peterson's Private Secondary Schools is everything parents need to find the right private secondary school for their child. This valuable resource allows students and parents to compare and select from more that 1,500 schools in the U.S. and Canada, and around the world. Schools featured include independent day schools, special needs schools, and boarding schools (including junior boarding schools for middle-school students). Helpful information listed for each of these schools include: school's area of specialization, setting, affiliation, accreditation, tuition, financial aid, student body, faculty, academic programs, social life, admission information, contacts, and more. Also includes helpful articles on the merits of private education, planning a successful school search, searching for private schools online, finding the perfect match, paying for a private education, tips for taking the necessary standardized tests, semester programs and understanding the private schools' admission application form and process.

Peterson's Private Secondary Schools 2014-15 is a valuable resource to help parents and students evaluate and choose from more than 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and throughout the world. Featured institutions include independent day schools, special-needs schools, and boarding schools-including junior boarding schools for middle school students. Profiles offer detailed information on areas of specialization, location/setting, affiliation, accreditation, tuition and aid availability, student body, faculty, academic programs, athletics, computers and campus technology, and admission information. Dozens of in-depth descriptions and displays offer photos of students and school campuses, as well as essential information to help parents find the right private secondary school for their child. Extra Summer Programs section offers additional details on fascinating summer opportunities at private secondary schools.

Lists and describes schools in the United States and Canada.

An insider’s guide to branding yourself, finding your best-fit boarding school, and acing the admissions process. ? ???How to BUILD a unique and inviting personal brand that DIFFERENTIATES you in the admissions process ???How to STAND OUT in student/parent interviews at highly selective schools ???Tips for earning the BEST recommendations ???Strategies for building MEANINGFUL relationships with target schools ???Principles of SUCCESS in the boarding school setting ???REAL WORLD accounts of students finding their best-fit boarding school ???Plus a FREE My Boarding School Plan Workbook (PDF)! ? Finding a perfect fit between schools and applicants should not only be the goal of admissions officers — but of students as well. Approaching school applications from the vantage point of an educational consultant helps students gain admission and more importantly thrive at their boarding school of choice. ? With over 10 years of professional experience in educational consultancy and having successfully placed hundreds of international students to the most prestigious American boarding schools, Marybeth Hodson and Jennifer Yu Cheng are expertly positioned to walk you through the complexities of boarding school admission. Throughout this insider’s guide, the authors unveil a special five-step approach to determining and getting admitted to a best-fit school, affording parents and students a better understanding of what boarding schools seek in an ideal student and how to brand yourself as THE ideal candidate. ? TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS PREFACE INTRODUCTION STEP 01 START EARLY 1.1????????Readiness Indicators 1.2????????Build Your Brand 1.3????????Building Relationships STEP 02 PLAN WELL ???????2.1?Set Your Target ?????2.2?Getting Ready to Visit Schools ?????2.3?Student and Parent School Visit STEP 03 EXECUTE ???????3.1?Understanding the Application Process ?????3.2?Student and Parent Application ?????3.3?Recommendations ?????3.4?Supplemental Materials STEP 04 FOLLOW-UP ?????4.1?Increase Visibility ?????4.2?The Admission Decision STEP 05 TRANSITION ???????5.1?Before You Go ?????5.2?While You’re There CASE STUDIES APPENDIX: EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS CONCLUSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Focusing on English-language publications of the last decade, this guide identifies and describes key reference and information sources in the field of education today. In addition to general reference sources O'Brien covers major social science reference sources that have a direct or overlapping relationship to education. Nearly 500 entries are arranged by subject and type of work. Most are new to this work. For example, there are now a number of Internet sources with URL addresses and an increased number of journals, which reflects the increasing reliance on periodicals as information sources. The book has also been completely reorganized, with new chapters covering Educational Technology and Media; Multilingual and Multicultural Education; Adult Alternative, Continuing and Distance Education; Curriculum, Instruction, and Content areas; Educational Research, Measurement, and Testing; and so forth. Excluded are lists of education associations and organizations, general social science refe

This handbook aims to be a guide to the best private schools of the country. It has been undertaken with the parent especially in mind, but it is hoped that it may be of value to school and college authorities and all others interested in the subject. It is believed that this Handbook is the first volume which attempts a critical and discriminating treatment of the private schools of the country. It is an endeavor to classify the schools on their merits -- at least a step, it is hoped, toward eventual standardization. - Editor's foreword.