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  2. Boarding school - Wikipedia

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    A typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area. A number of senior teaching staff are appointed as housemasters, housemistresses, dorm parents, prefects, or residential advisors, each of whom takes quasi-parental responsibility (in loco parentis) for anywhere from 5 to 50 students resident in their house or ...

  3. William Holmes Borders - Wikipedia

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    William Holmes Borders Sr. (24 February 1905 – 23 November 1993) [1] was an American civil rights activist and leader and pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia from 1937 to 1988.

  4. Criticism of college and university rankings in North America

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    Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.

  5. 5 Signs College May Be a Bad Financial Decision

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    Considering the average cost of a college credit hour ranges from $161 at a two-year, in-district public school to $1,642 at a four-year, private nonprofit college, according to CollegeBoard data ...

  6. Parlour boarder - Wikipedia

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    The school was composed of eight parlour-boarders, and about sixty other lads. The parlour-boarders lived entirely at the Doctor's table, and joined in all his society as part of his family. In their walks they were usually accompanied by the Doctor himself, who rarely entrusted that responsibility to an usher.

  7. Borders's New Chairman: Bad For Business? - AOL

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    Borders (BGP) has itself a brand new chairman. Financier Bennett LeBow's recent $25 million stock purchase gives him a 15.5% stake in the company. When anyone swoops in with that much money and ...

  8. 5 Signs College May Be a Bad Financial Decision

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  9. Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia

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    According to American educational psychologist David Berliner, home and community environments have a stronger impact on school achievement than in-school factors, in part because students spend more time outside of school than in school. In addition, the out-of-school factors influencing academic performance differ significantly between ...