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Dr. Pedro Noguera: Great Cities, Great Schools, a recap
Noguera speaking with WBEZ education reporter Linda Lutton at the March 3, 2014 lecture with GCI.
Dr. Pedro Noguera recaps his Monday, March 3 lecture with a special blog post for GCI. Noguera spoke on the perpetual state of reform for urban schools for the past thirty years, and what we should be doing differently to learn from these costly efforts.
If American society is to make greater progress in moving people from poverty to prosperity we will need to significantly change the way we go about educating most children in this country. Right now, education is more likely to be implicated in the reproduction of inequality than in the advancement of social mobility for most individuals. There are many factors that have contributed to this dismal reality: profound inequities in school funding that have exacerbated opportunities available in schools serving low-income children compared to those serving the middle class; the rising cost of college without commensurate increases in scholarships and financial aid; and the numerous ways in which poverty and income insecurity have hindered educational progress for poor children.
Beyond these significant obstacles to educational opportunity there is the approach we have taken to educating children. Since the adoption of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2001, schools have become fixated on test preparation since test scores have become the basis for judging students, schools, and since the adoption of Race to The Top (RTT), teachers. The focus on test preparation has resulted in a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools have reduced or even eliminated art, music, foreign language and physical education because these subjects are not included on state exams. It has also contributed to boredom and disengagement among students and frustration among teachers who recognize that time devoted to testing and test preparation is time lost to more creative teaching and learning.
There are signs that a growing number of teachers and parents are tired of the tyranny of testing and are ready to push back. On March 3rd, parents and teachers at several schools in Chicago openly boycotted state exams.
Similar protests have occurred in Seattle, Boston and other cities across the country.
These actions provide a vivid reminder that if education is to serve as a means for those in poverty to experience prosperity, it will require more than just good test scores and a narrow focus on achievement. In order for education to expand opportunity it must enable students to recognize that knowledge can be a source of power and provide them with the means to use education to help themselves, their families and communities. Making this type of education available to a broader number of students must be the objective of policy makers, parents and activists who genuinely believe that education can be a resource for expanding opportunity.
About the Author:
Dr. Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University. Dr. Noguera is a sociologist whose scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions and the factors that obstruct and promote student achievement.
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| SCHOOL | LOCATION | AGE/ CLASS |
COST per academic year School+Sports ( in US dollars) |
| Avon Old Farms School Boys Boarding School |
Avon, Connecticut | 9-12 | 61250 |
| Belmont Hill School 5 Day Boarding School |
Massachusetts | Grades 6-12 | |
| Berkshire School | Sheffield, Massachusetts | Grade 9-12; PG |
64000 |
| Breck School | Golden Valley, Minnesota | ||
| Cardigan Mountain School | Canaan New Hampshire |
11-15 6-9 grade |
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| CATS Academy Boston | Boston, Newton, Massachusetts | 14-18 years old | |
| Chaminade College Preparatory School | St. Louis, MO |
Grade 6-12 | |
| Cretin Derham Hall (Amerigo Twin Cities) | Cretin-Derham Hall, MN | Grade 9-12 | |
| Culver Academy | Culver, IN | 9-12 class | 52135 |
| Cushing Academy | Washington, Connecticut 90 miles to New York |
9-12 grade | off 61950 |
| Frederick Gunn School – The Gunnery School | 9-12 grade | 65950 | |
| Gilmour Academy | Gates Mills, Ohio | Grades 9-12 | off 51650 |
| Hoosac School | Hoosick, New York (near Manhattan, Westchester County, Albany and Stamford) |
Grade 8-12 | 52000 |
| The Hotchkiss School | Lakeville Connecticut |
9-12 grade | |
| Kimball Union Academy | Meriden, New Hampshire | ||
| Lawrence Academy www.  lacademy.edu |
Groton, Massachusetts | 62500 | |
| Loomis Chaffee School | Windsor, Connecticut |
9th-12th grade; Post-graduate |
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| MacDuffie School | Granby, Massachusetts | Grades 6-12 | 55,450 |
| Milton Academy | Milton, Massachusetts | 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. There is no admission to the 12th grade. |
61920 |
| Northwood School | Lake Placid, New York | 9-12 grade Postgraduate |
62000 |
| Salisbury School | Salisbury, Connecticut Less than 2 hours drive from New York |
61000 | |
| Shattuck-St. Mary’s School | Faribault, Minnesota | Grade 6-12 | 55300 |
| South Florida Hockey Academy | Coral Springs, Florida | ||
| South Kent School | South Kent, Connecticut Airports: Bradley Field, Hartford, CT; LaGuardia Airport, NY |
57000 | |
| Taft School | Watertown, Connecticut | Grade 9-12 | 65000 |
| Thayer Academy Bed and Breakfast |
Braintree, MA | Sports Academies: Ice Hockey Football, etc.  |
51800 |
| Thornton Academy | Saco Maine |
6-12 grade | 48000 |
Top 20 hockey academies in the US over the years
| 2017 | 2021 | |
| 1 | Shattuck-St. Mary’s School (SSM) | Shattuck-St. Mary’s School (SSM) |
| 2 | Thayer Brain Tree, Massachusetts Academy |
Selects Academy at Bishop Kearney Rochester, New York |
| 3 | Avon Old Farms School Connecticut |
Culver Academies Culver, Indiana |
| 4 | Cushing Academy | Hill Murray School Maplewood, Minnesota |
| 5 | Culver Academies Culver, Indiana |
South Kent School South Kent, Connecticut |
| 6 | Noble and Greenough | Salisbury School |
| 7 | Belmont Hill School | Mount Saint Charles Academy Woonsocket, Rhode Island |
| 8 | Kimball Union Academy | Loomis Chaffee School Windsor, Connecticut |
| 9 | Salisbury School | St. Thomas Academy Mendota Heights, Minnesota |
| 10 | Taft School | Kimball Union Academy Meriden, New Hampshire |
| 11 | Thomas Academy Mendota Heights, Minnesota |
Thayer Academy Brain Tree, Massachusetts |
| 12 | Saint Sebastian’s | Northwood School Lake Placid, New York |
| 13 | Hill Murray | Breck School Minnesota |
| 14 | Lawrence Academy | Avon Old Farms School Connecticut |
| 15 | Gentry Academy | Frederick Gunn School – The Gunnery School |
| 16 | Berkshire School | Cushing Academy |
| 17 | Breck School Minnesota |
Kent School Kent, Connecticut |
| 18 | Cretin Derham Hall (Amerigo Twin Cities) | Academy of Holy Angels Richfield, Minnesota |
| 20 | Gilmour Academy | Benilde St Margarets St Louise Park, Minnesota |
The list, of course, does not include all the best hockey academies in the US, and ratings may not always give a complete picture of the quality and merits of all schools.