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- Aug, 1993 Issue #23 |
JOHN DEWEY ACADEMY FACULTY
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Tom Bratter, Founder
413-528-9800
The John Dewey Academy
is a college preparatory, therapeutic high school for students
aged fifteen to twenty-one. The full-time clinical staff has
three doctorates with the fourth completing hers. It wants
to be judged by the reputations of the colleges which admit
its graduates.
The academic faculty includes
six who have their doctorates and two who are close to completion,
and five with their masters degrees. This includes the addition
of Ann Blake, a cum laude graduate of Smith College,
with masters degrees from Vassar and Middlebury
Colleges, who received her doctorate from The Shakespeare
Institute of The University of Birmingham (England), and
Jamie Howard who, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa
from Vassar College, earned his doctorate in Astronomy
from Yale University.
Students can study French, German,
Greek, Italian, Latin, Russian, and Spanish as well as chemistry,
calculus, linear algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics
and astronomy. Dr. Kenneth Steiner, Dean of Studies,
says "the variety of courses offered at this tiny school compares
reasonably well to educational institutions whose enrollments
exceed 500." Class size rarely exceeds seven so students can
proceed at their own rate and design projects which interest
them.
Dr. Thomas Edward Bratter,
president, contends, "The strength of John Dewey is each student
has an individualized program. We have few institutional rules.
The advantage is we know the students and they know us. The
faculty serve as mentors and responsible role models."
Dr Henry Radda, Dean,
reports, "The most potent catalyst for change is the personal
involvement, encouragement and attention which our students
receive."
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© 1993, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
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