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Friends Council on Education (includes school finder) List of Friends Schools in the U.K. and bibliographical sources for their study (including schools now closed) A Quaker Education from the Friends' Schools' Council (includes school finder)
The conference is occasionally enlarged to include Quakers involved in other aspects of education. In 1988 FAHE co-hosted the International Congress on Quaker Education [4] [5] with the Friends Council on Education. In 2019 the conference was held at FAHE member institutions Swarthmore College and Pendle Hill in suburban Philadelphia.
The Friends School of Minnesota (FSMN) is a Kindergarten through Eighth Grade (K-8) independent school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.The school was founded in 1988 by area Quakers and peace activists with the goal of meeting "children’s intellectual, emotional and spiritual needs in an environment that nurtures their social consciousness."
The Friend (Quaker magazine) Friends Association for Higher Education; Friends Foreign Mission Association (1868–1927) Friends General Conference; Friends Service Council (1927–1978) Friends' Ambulance Unit; Fund for Reconciliation and Development
Friends School of Harford is the only Friends school in Harford County, Maryland and is a member of the Friends Council on Education. Consistent with Friends School of Harford's commitment to Quaker values the school periodically sponsors community seminars on parenting [2] and conflict-resolution. [3] [4]
Founded in 1970, Tandem is the first Friends School in the U.S. that started as a non-Quaker School. The school is accredited by the National Association of Independent Schools and the Virginia Association of Independent Schools and is a member of the Council on Education. [3]
Friends General Conference (FGC) is an association of Quakers in the United States and Canada made up of 16 yearly meetings and 12 autonomous monthly meetings. [1] " Monthly meetings" are what Quakers call congregations; "yearly meetings" are organizations of monthly meetings within a geographic region.
In England, Quaker schools sprang up soon after the movement emerged, with Friends School Saffron Walden being the most prominent. [89] Quaker schools in the UK and Ireland are supported by The Friends' Schools' Council. [90] In Australia, Friends' School, Hobart, founded in 1887, has grown into the largest Quaker school in the world.