Army and Navy Academy Blog
Cadets, Parents Are Thankful for What Makes ANA Different
“… ANA is providing my son opportunities to be the best he can be and as an ANA parent, I could not be more pleased with our experience…” – Pamela R. (ANA parent) The Cadets who attend the Army and Navy Academy and their parents have several more reasons to be...
SAT Testing Option is Just Part of College Preparation at ANA
A September 20 article on the EdSource website reported that many high school seniors are “scrambling to schedule SAT and ACT tests this fall” despite the fact that most private and public colleges and universities are not requiring test results as an admissions...
Personal Health and Safety are Chief Priorities at Army and Navy Academy
The Cadets, teachers, and staff members who have returned to the Army and Navy Academy campus for the beginning of the 2020-21 school year have found a large number of health and safety protocols that weren’t in place prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Learning Teamwork Skills Helps Build Future Leaders at Army and Navy Academy
“Teamwork makes the dream work…” John Maxwell, author and speaker Teamwork is an essential part of most successful endeavors in modern life. It is especially so in the highly competitive workplace where the ability to work as part of a team is one of the most...
Learning Communications Skills Critical Part of an Academy Education
“The art of communications is the language of leadership.” --Presidential speechwriter and author James C. Humes While it is true that effective leadership thrives on communication, the fact is so does everything else to varying degrees when people interact with...
Academy’s STEM Programs Prepare Cadets for Several Critical Career Areas
“The United States will need approximately 1 million more STEM professionals than will graduate in the next decade.” – White House news release sent in 2012 Since the above statement was released eight years ago, the acronym STEM has become the dominant content...
What Makes Army and Navy Academy Different from Other Schools?
There are a lot of questions prospective parents and their sons ask about the school they’re considering; some predictable, others not so much. For example, the first question often asked by boys who are looking at the Army and Navy Academy is whether the Academy’s...
What Does ‘College Preparatory’ Really Mean?
It should go without saying that the academic, personal, and social skills needed to succeed in college are beyond those required to succeed in today’s typical high school. What becomes clear immediately to incoming college or university freshmen – and their parents –...
Academy’s STEM-Based Program Prepares Cadets to Pursue Aviation Careers
“Our Cadets who finish this program and go onto to complete a college education in aviation will be equipped to succeed in the aviation industry, no matter where they go.” --Retired Marine Aviator LtCol. Kevin G. Moss, Aviation Instructor, Army and Navy Academy The...
Why Diversity Matters in Educating Students
“Diversity can be defined as the sum of the ways that people are both alike and different…” --National Education Association (NEA) Schools throughout much of the developed world have added numerous resources in recent years to enhance the quality of teaching and...
Leadership Education Enhances Student Achievement
For the past several years, U.S. private and public schools have placed a growing emphasis on academics, trying to deal with the rapid changes taking place in today’s world and the disturbing fact that the U.S. trails a significant number of other countries in student...
The ‘Secret’ to Educating Boys
“Boys and Girls Learn Differently,” -- title of book by Michael Gurian, founder of the Gurian Institute. While there have been all-boys and all-girls schools in place for centuries, it’s only been in recent years that scientific research has shown why such schools are...
Why a Military Boarding School Makes Sense for Boys
“Cadets at military schools learn to be leaders of character who are able to assess dynamic situations, make informed and timely decisions and bring to any environment.” --Association of Military Schools and Colleges of the United States Our nation’s young people are...
Why a Boarding School Can Make a Big Difference
There’s been so much focus on what’s being taught in our schools’ classrooms that parents and even their adolescent and teenage children often are unaware of what learning opportunities lie beyond the traditional school day. So much can be added after school hours to...
Helping Boys Become Bold, Brilliant, and Self Confident
“When I wear my Army and Navy Academy uniform, I beam with pride. Here I see myself through the admiring eyes of teachers, family, and friends who believe I will accomplish my dreams … I can’t imagine being anywhere else.” --Current Army and Navy Academy Cadet A...
Superior Education Begins With a Safe School Campus
“Success will always be with you as long as you place safety as the first priority.” -- Anonymous There was a time when acts of violence on U.S. school campuses were pretty much confined to an occasional after-school fistfight, a brief altercation between opposing...
What Parents of Boys Should Look For in a School
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States Many of our nation’s schools today are struggling to provide a quality education...
Academy’s ‘Belief in the Boy’ Emphasis Attracts Interest
“This is a wonderful place for boys to learn leadership, responsibility, character and the many skills needed to become engaged, purposeful, and contributing citizens… ANA is providing my son opportunities to be the best he can be and as an ANA parent, I could not be...
How One School Adapted to Remote Learning During Crisis
How the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has brought about massive changes in the daily lives of people of nearly every nation on earth, including what U.S. schools are now doing to educate children and young adults to become productive and successful citizens.
Technology is Transforming Classroom Teaching and Learning
Technology has impacted our daily lives at lightning speed over the years to help us do things we’ve never been able to imagine.
More Emphasis on Learning is Key to Quality Education
These days, we pay a lot of attention to curriculum content, classroom teaching strategies, and other teaching-directed resources as the primary strategies that comprise a quality education.
The ‘Why, When and How’s’ of Learning a Foreign Language
There are many important reasons for learning a foreign language beyond fulfilling a graduation or college entrance requirement. Pandatree.com lists several reasons for children to learn a foreign language well before they enter high school.
How Athletics Ramp Up Success in Teenagers
In recent years, scientists who study the human brain have found that physical activity increases cognitive development.
Millennials Face Several Financial Problems
Enter the Millennial generation whose members were born between 1980 and 1995 and who were the first to come of age in the new millennium. They became widely known for being especially “tech-savvy,” interested primarily in pursuing their passions, and whose consumer and business habits are thought to have killed several industries.
Computer Science and STEM Programs Prepare Students for Future Success
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics are the topics of today’s young people that will prepare them to succeed in tomorrow’s world of work.
How Teamwork Builds Successful Adults
Teamwork is an essential part of any successful endeavor in modern life. It is especially so in the highly competitive workplace where the ability to work as part of a team is one of the most important skills in today’s job market.
Why and How Diversity Matters in Our Schools
Diversity awareness helps young people make more of their lives by introducing unique perspectives from multiple sources that prepare them to become enlightened and productive adults.
What’s Different About the “iGen” Generation
To suggest that a generation of young adults now in their mid-20’s and 30’s is becoming socially irrelevant may seem somewhat rash but the Millennials are being moved over by an even younger population.
School Aviation Programs Respond to Critical Shortage of Pilots
The future of our nation and that of other developed countries is literally up in the air, due in large part to a growing worldwide shortage of commercial and military pilots.
How to Gain Admission to Colleges – the Right Way
Few occasions are as stressful in the lives of college-bound high school seniors (and their parents) as the time when they wait anxiously to learn whether they’ve been accepted into the college of their choice.
