Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 7—Greta Johnston remembers the first day she stepped into Steve Jobe's classroom at Frederica Academy. Political posters and ...

Melia Robinson/BI Russell Weatherspoon sits at the Harkness Table, the centerpiece of a Phillips Exeter Academy education. Russell Weatherspoon, or "Spoon," as his students call him, took a seat at ...

This week Upland Country Day School is starting the school year as the second middle school in the nation to incorporate the Harkness teaching method and Harkness tables at the middle school level ...

It is a typical day in high school. After grabbing my things and walking to class, I step into my classroom, where about 12 students take their seats around a big oval-shaped table. Rather than ...

In 1930, oil magnate and philanthropist Edward Harkness made a gift to Exeter Academy (and several other eastern boarding schools) that was meant to revolutionize secondary school teaching. The gift ...

Dec. 7—Greta Johnston remembers the first day she stepped into Steve Jobe's classroom at Frederica Academy. Political posters and memorabilia filled nearly every visible space, on walls, shelves, ...