Quaker education
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ClaudetteQuaker School Makes Home in Restored Levi’s Denim Factory
Seventh-grade students in a humanities class were given an atlas and asked, working in pairs, “Should differences be minimized or welcomed?” Upstairs, workers were laying the foundation for...
San Francisco, California, Friends School Runs Capital Campaign to Turn Former Levi’s Factory Into K-8
Dr. Jen Brokaw, a 40-year-old emergency room physician, first came to the San Francisco Friends School as it was opening, when her oldest daughter was entering kindergarten four...
Detroit’s Friends School, Michigan’s Only Quaker School, Closes for Now
Michigan’s only Quaker-run school, Friends School in Detroit, is closing its doors for now. Parents and board members say the closure is a major blow to the school...
Winona, Ohio, Quaker school first-grade class of 1944 reunites at Strawberry Festival
Members of the 1944 first-grade class at Winona Quaker School gathered at the Winona Strawberry Festival and Sesquicentennial Celebration on June 23, the report said. The war years...
Quaker School Educator Nancy Fitts Donaldson Dies at 93
Nancy Fitts Donaldson, 93, of Newtown Square, a longtime Quaker school educator and the mother of Inquirer cartoonist Signe Wilkinson, died in her sleep on Thursday, Sept. 26,...
Quaker Schools in Greater Philadelphia Adopt DEI Statements, Opinion Column Argues
Michael Torres, director of media at the Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania, argues in a City Journal opinion piece that Quaker schools in Greater Philadelphia are departing from their...
Founding head of Quaker school in Decatur, Georgia, to retire in July 2023
Waman French, founding head of The Friends School of Atlanta (FSA) in Decatur, has announced that he will retire effective July 1, 2023, according to a February 14,...
Student Reflects on What Quaker Education Taught Her at Schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ali Watson, a 17-year-old rising senior at the William Penn Charter School in East Falls, Pennsylvania, has written about what she has learned from attending Quaker schools. Watson,...
Quakers in Britain Offer Support to Ramallah Friends School After Three Former Students Shot in Burlington, Vermont
Quakers in Britain have offered their support to Ramallah Friends School after three former students were shot in Vermont. Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid, all 20,...
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