Blog: Academics
Helping Boys to Thrive: Reflections on the Unique Challenges Confronting Boys in School
For many educators working in the trenches with boys, the recent news from the Wall Street Journal (Douglas Belkin: A Generation of Men Give Up on College) highlighting a widening gap in educational achievement between males and females did not come as a surprise. For...
How Boarding School Can Help Students Struggling in a Traditional School
Learn more about what a boarding school is and how attending one can benefit students that are struggling in a traditional school. Let’s begin by diving into the various types of schools and how boarding schools differ from traditional schools. To simplify, there are...
How to Prepare Your Child to Return to School After COVID-19
Back to school anxiety will be a major factor for a lot of students going back to school after COVID-19. Dealing with anxiety can be tough for parents, so here is some information about back to school anxiety, as well as some tips to help your child deal effectively...
3 Key Benefits of Starting College Prep Early
Preparing for College - Readiness is More than Just Academics Preparing for college is an important step in your child’s education. Starting college prep early has many benefits, including learning readiness, campus life preparation, and the ability to navigate...
10 Ways Your Child Might Benefit from a Leadership Camp
Enrolling in a leadership camp has many benefits for children and teenagers. Beyond just pure fun, summer leadership camps help build a number of personal skills and values that apply well beyond middle and high school. Many times, parents are so anxious to register...
How Enrolling Your Child in a Computer Science Camp Will Help them with Math and Science in School
So, you thought computer science was all about technology? What about math and science? Computer science camps can not only provide your child with technical skills, it can also help your child with math and science in school. A camp experience could be the catalyst...
Why Growing Numbers of Students and Parents are Choosing Boarding Schools for their Teenagers
Many Americans are rather unfamiliar with boarding schools, despite their awareness of independent private day schools. So, let’s begin with a brief overview before we dive into the many benefits of boarding school for teenagers. Most boarding schools in the U.S. have...
Why a Disciplined Lifestyle Will Do Wonders for Your Child in College
If you want your child to do well in college, think about sending your child to a private boarding school, perhaps a military school, where a disciplined lifestyle is integral to all aspects of campus life: academics, athletics, character development, and specialized...
Five Common Misconceptions About Boarding School
When parents first begin thinking about a boarding school for their child, they may be reluctant to share their thoughts and views with others. They could be wresting with the decision within themselves, because of many misconceptions. In fact, they might have even...
What You Need to Know About SAT and ACT Tests
While many colleges and universities no longer require SAT and ACT test results as part of admission applications, there are large numbers of students and their parents who worry that not taking standardized entrance exams could negatively impact their application...
Cadets, Parents Are Thankful for What Makes ANA Different
“… ANA is providing my son opportunities to be the best he can be and as an ANA parent, I could not be more pleased with our experience…” – Pamela R. (ANA parent) The Cadets who attend the Army and Navy Academy and their parents have several more reasons to be...
SAT Testing Option is Just Part of College Preparation at ANA
A September 20 article on the EdSource website reported that many high school seniors are “scrambling to schedule SAT and ACT tests this fall” despite the fact that most private and public colleges and universities are not requiring test results as an admissions...
Learning Communications Skills Critical Part of an Academy Education
“The art of communications is the language of leadership.” --Presidential speechwriter and author James C. Humes While it is true that effective leadership thrives on communication, the fact is so does everything else to varying degrees when people interact with...
Academy’s STEM Programs Prepare Cadets for Several Critical Career Areas
“The United States will need approximately 1 million more STEM professionals than will graduate in the next decade.” – White House news release sent in 2012 Since the above statement was released eight years ago, the acronym STEM has become the dominant content...
What Makes Army and Navy Academy Different from Other Schools?
There are a lot of questions prospective parents and their sons ask about the school they’re considering; some predictable, others not so much. For example, the first question often asked by boys who are looking at the Army and Navy Academy is whether the Academy’s...
What Does ‘College Preparatory’ Really Mean?
It should go without saying that the academic, personal, and social skills needed to succeed in college are beyond those required to succeed in today’s typical high school. What becomes clear immediately to incoming college or university freshmen – and their parents –...
Academy’s STEM-Based Program Prepares Cadets to Pursue Aviation Careers
Interested in aviation? You can actually learn to fly while you are in high school to get a jump start in this growing field. Military boarding schools, in particular, one in California a offers a stellar aviation program. “Our cadets who finish this program and go...
The ‘Secret’ to Educating Boys
“Boys and Girls Learn Differently,” -- title of book by Michael Gurian, founder of the Gurian Institute. While there have been all-boys and all-girls schools in place for centuries, it’s only been in recent years that scientific research has shown why such schools are...
Why a Boarding School Can Make a Big Difference
There’s been so much focus on what’s being taught in our schools’ classrooms that parents and even their adolescent and teenage children often are unaware of what learning opportunities lie beyond the traditional school day. So much can be added after school hours to...
Academy’s ‘Belief in the Boy’ Emphasis Attracts Interest
“This is a wonderful place for boys to learn leadership, responsibility, character and the many skills needed to become engaged, purposeful, and contributing citizens… ANA is providing my son opportunities to be the best he can be and as an ANA parent, I could not be...
Technology is Transforming Classroom Teaching and Learning
Technology has impacted our daily lives at lightning speed over the years to help us do things we’ve never been able to imagine.
More Emphasis on Learning is Key to Quality Education
These days, we pay a lot of attention to curriculum content, classroom teaching strategies, and other teaching-directed resources as the primary strategies that comprise a quality education.
The ‘Why, When and How’s’ of Learning a Foreign Language
There are many important reasons for learning a foreign language beyond fulfilling a graduation or college entrance requirement. Pandatree.com lists several reasons for children to learn a foreign language well before they enter high school.
Computer Science and STEM Programs Prepare Students for Future Success
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics are the topics of today’s young people that will prepare them to succeed in tomorrow’s world of work.
How to Gain Admission to Colleges – the Right Way
Few occasions are as stressful in the lives of college-bound high school seniors (and their parents) as the time when they wait anxiously to learn whether they’ve been accepted into the college of their choice.
How to Prepare Students to Succeed at Boarding Schools
More parents nowadays are considering boarding school for their children, but they need to take steps to adjust to a learning environment that’s completely different from a private or public school in their hometown.
School Aviation Programs Respond to Critical Shortage of Pilots
The future of our nation and that of other developed countries is literally up in the air, due in large part to a growing worldwide shortage of commercial and military pilots.
How Boarding Schools Prepare Young People for College
Boarding schools provide the away-from-home living environment where children can develop the personal independence skills they’ll need for college later.
Boarding Schools: Where Learning Never Stops
There’s been so much focus on what’s being taught in our schools’ classrooms that we’re apt to forget what needs to happen beyond the traditional school day
Effective Communication is Key to Resolving Conflicts
Conflict is unavoidable. When humans interact with each other, there is an eventual certainty that different personal preferences, ideas, likes, and dislikes will create conflict.
