Quaker schools
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ClaudetteQuaker School in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Suspends Two Teachers Over Palestinian Speaker Invitation
Two teachers at Friends’ Central School, a Quaker school in Wynnewood outside Philadelphia, have been placed on administrative leave, according to a lawyer representing them, Ariel Eure and...
Students at Quaker school in Manhattan, New York, rally behind teacher fired over “Heil Hitler!” remark
Students and alumni at Friends Seminary, a Quaker-run private school in Manhattan, are rallying behind a mathematics teacher who was dismissed after making a joking Nazi salute in...
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,...
New research links English Quaker schools’ values to students’ engagement with learning
Amanda Spielman, the new chief of Ofsted, England’s schools inspectorate, has said that British values, including tolerance, openness to new ideas and mutual respect, should form a central...
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,...
GwenGreenleaf, Idaho, Friends Academy celebrates 100 years
Greenleaf Friends Academy opened in November 1908 with 16 students in Greenleaf, a small Quaker (Friends) community in southwest Idaho. The school is marking its centennial with a...
Parents criticise The Friends’ School in Hobart, Australia, over response to deepfake images of 21 girls
Girls at The Friends’ School in Hobart, which the ABC describes as the world’s largest Quaker school, have been targeted in an AI-generated deepfake incident, with pornographic depictions...
