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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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It Hardly Hurt a Bit
By Mike Miley
Punch-Drunk Love,
I Heart Huckabees,
Lady Bird) or a record producer for some of the most creative names in popular music (Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Katy Perry, Janelle Monae), and rightly so. But for me, Jon Brion is nothing less than the composer of the soundtrack to my creative life, a soundtrack with just one song on it. “Ruin My Day” has been the theme playing under every joyous, resentful, morose, and conflicted feeling that I have about the film industry, as well as my sad and ordinary failure to insinuate myself into its ranks.