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These Are 50 of the Best Private High Schools in America


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 ....

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'Somebody has to do it': Volunteers help push COVID-19 vaccines toward the finish line


Somebody has to do it : Volunteers help push COVID-19 vaccines toward the finish line
Amanda Morris, Arizona Republic
Corrections & Clarifications: Rachel Gomez-Acosta s age was incorrect in a previous version of this article.
Chris Eriksen thought of his fifth-grade students at Phoenix Country Day School as a medical worker administered the shot. The students had endured months of isolation when the coronavirus forced schools to close and shifted online.
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Chris Erikson is a volunteer in Moderna s experimental COVID-19 vaccine trial.
As he tracked his own symptoms afterward, he thought of his late mother-in-law, who died from COVID-19 a few weeks earlier. ....

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