These Are 50 of the Best Private High Schools in America
By Lisa Borten, Stacker News
On 2/3/21 at 8:00 PM EST
America s private high schools opened long before their public counterparts and even before the United States was first established. The Roman Catholic Church in the 1700s started private schools in Florida and Louisiana while in New York (a former Dutch colony called New Amsterdam), the Dutch West India Company and Dutch Reformed Church set up private schools that filled the void left by the colonies lack of an education system.
That changed in the 1840s when the U.S. instituted a uniform public school system. To stay relevant, private schools changed from marketing themselves as the only option to portraying their education as the best option. To this day, private high schools have positioned themselves as fast-tracks to admittance into elite universities. Faced with the rigorous demands of the highly competitive college admissions process and increased pressure
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Missouri Supreme Court judge to retire soon
Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith plans to retire effective March 8. She was appointed to the high court in 2001 and served as chief justice from 2007 to 2009.
Missouri Supreme Court Judge Laura Denvir Stith
A press release today from the State Supreme Court says Stith is the second woman ever to serve on the court.
“I hope that in some small way my service over the last 20 years has continued to be a model for women lawyers and other minorities throughout Missouri that the court system of Missouri is open to all those who wish to serve, whatever their gender, race, ethnicity or type of legal practice,” Stith says.
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From left, Misha Marshall, Richard Weiss and Leyla Fern King.
The 63106 ZIP code houses some of St. Louis’ most vulnerable residents. Located just north of downtown, it includes the largely African American St. Louis neighborhoods of Old North, Carr Square, Columbus Square and Jeff VanDerLou. A Washington University study famously found an 18-year difference in the life expectancy of its residents compared to the largely white, affluent denizens of Clayton’s 63105 ZIP code.
Richard Weiss wasn’t content to keep the story in the realm of statistics. Throughout the pandemic, he’s led a team of freelance journalists as they delve deeply into the lives of 63106 residents. Sponsored by Weiss’ nonprofit racial equity storytelling collaborative Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson with support from the Pulitzer Center, the 63106 Project has published stories in publications from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to the Riverfront Times (and even, yes, St. Louis Public Radio).
Interviewed by Conrad Knickerbocker
Firecrackers and whistles sounded the advent of the New Year of 1965 in St. Louis. Stripteasers ran from the bars in Gaslight Square to dance in the street when midnight came. Burroughs, who had watched television alone that night, was asleep in his room at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis’s most elegant.
At noon the next day he was ready for the interview. He wore a gray lightweight Brooks Brothers suit with a vest, a blue-striped shirt from Gibraltar cut in the English style, and a deep-blue tie with small white polka dots. His manner was not so much pedagogic as didactic or forensic. He might have been a senior partner in a private bank, charting the course of huge but anonymous fortunes. A friend of the interviewer, spotting Burroughs across the lobby, thought he was a British diplomat. At the age of fifty, he is trim; he performs a complex abdominal exercise daily and walks a good deal. His face carries no excess flesh. His expres