The Tang Institute at Phillips Academy

Learning isn’t what it used to be. And neither is teaching. The goals are the same: acquiring—or imparting—knowledge for a useful, ...

North Shore Alpacas

“Sheep are so familiar. Alpacas are a relatively new concept,” says Melanie Cosgrove, nodding to the pack of animals she and musician Pat...

GPHomestay Facilitates U.S. Stays for International Students

When a host and her international student call each other “mom” and “son,” or when a woman says she loves her teenaged guest,...

Children Take Classes at The ArtRoom in Topsfield

Art has always been a part of Topsfield artist Sandy Runnion’s life, and she’s explored it through many outlets; Runnion ran her own desi...

Academic Andover

It’s hard to pin down just what makes Andover so special. It’s a centuries-old bastion of intellect, a national leader in land preservati...

Brookwood’s Lower School Gets a Makeover

When Brookwood School in Manchester began the recent rebuild and expansion of its Lower School, third-graders wearing hardhats gave updates in a week...

Peabody Learning Academy: An Alternative to Traditional High Schools

In many ways, it was a typical high school graduation scene. Smiling teenagers in gowns and mortarboards snapped selfies and posed for family photos ...

Endicott College's Sustainabilty Practices

You can learn a lot from someone’s trash, a truthful yet perhaps unpleasant concept that Sarah Hammond Creighton uses to her advantage. As dir...

The Musial Method

It might be a middle-aged man who’s enduring the heartache of divorce, or a little girl whose mother recently passed away. It might be a family...

Innovative Criminal Justice Course at Marian Court College

His was a feel-good story, a young man who worked through a parentless, hard-luck upbringing to become a football star. He earned a college schola...