by Joanna | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
According to U.S. News & World Report, the United States enrolled a breaking-number of international college students during the 2013-2014 school year. Close to 1 million (886,052) international students attended U.S. undergraduate and graduate programs across...
by Joanna | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
This article is the sequel to Part I of “Why Go To Boarding School?” The first article in this series detailed how I chose The Hotchkiss School for my boarding school education, and why I felt moving 1,100 miles away from home as a teenager was the best choice for my...
by Joanna | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
An interesting article about education in South Korea appeared in one of my favorite news sources: The Economist. The article states that by 2015, South Korea will no longer be using printed textbooks that are manufactured from trees in order to teach students, but...
by Joanna | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Why did you go to boarding school for high school? Why didn’t you just stay home and go to your regular high school with your friends? Did you get in trouble a lot at home? Were you a bad kid?” Invariably I’m peppered with these questions whenever it comes up in...
by Joanna | Jun 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
A survey by China Daily found that improving social status is the number one motivator for Chinese students to study abroad. Of the 1, 621 Chinese surveyed, 61 percent said they wished to obtain a diploma from a foreign school to boost their social standing, while 47...
