Blog: Academics
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...
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
How to Prepare Students to Succeed at Boarding Schools
More parents nowadays are considering boarding school for their children, but they need to take steps to adjust to a learning environment that’s completely different from a private or public school in their hometown.
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 Boarding Schools Prepare Young People for College
Boarding schools provide the away-from-home living environment where children can develop the personal independence skills they’ll need for college later.
Learning Strategies That Shape Boys into Successful Men
While there have been single gender schools for centuries, it’s only been in recent years that research has shown why such schools are the better option for educating young people.
Boarding Schools: Where Learning Never Stops
There’s been so much focus on what’s being taught in our schools’ classrooms that we’re apt to forget what needs to happen beyond the traditional school day
Effective Communication is Key to Resolving Conflicts
Conflict is unavoidable. When humans interact with each other, there is an eventual certainty that different personal preferences, ideas, likes, and dislikes will create conflict.
Just Who is the ‘iGen’ Generation and How Are They Different?
Just Who is the ‘iGen’ Generation and How Are They Different? The 74 million young Americans born between 1995 and 2012 comprise the most important generation in the nation’s history.
Additional Approaches Needed to Enhance Student Learning
While academic content and teaching strategies are important in planning children’s education, there are at least two more ingredients needed in a quality education.
Elevating Executive Function for Boys
“Executive Function & Self-Regulation,” a paper written by Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, lists three skills that are crucial for learning and development.
Preparing For A College Visit
Choosing the college that is right for you is beyond important and that decision is based on a myriad of factors. Here’s how to come prepared.
Leadership Education Raises Student Achievement
The lack of leadership education is one reason for the growing disparity in educational attainment among U.S. students of different races, nationalities and socio-economic backgrounds.
Brain Science and the Difference between Boys and Girls
Boys and girls learn differently for a very simple biological reason – their brains are built differently. Given, their differences, boys and girls perform better provided different stimuli.
Is there a Cancer Growing in Our Schools?
We are failing boys if we don’t address the “malignancies” in the education system. If you think of this as a cancer, it is growing and we cannot ignore it.
Are We Failing Our Boys? – The Crisis in Education
Are you asking if there is a crisis looming? Are boys falling behind? And if so, what’s happened to our boys to make them fail and fall behind?
