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North Shore Country Day School is a selective prep school in Winnetka, Illinois. It was founded in its current form as a coeducational school in 1919 during the Country Day School movement, though it followed the Rugby School for Boys (1893-1900) and Girton School for Girls (1900-1918).〔("Old-fashioned progressive." ) ''Time'' Apr. 5, 1954. retrieved November 21, 2006〕 It consists of a lower school, a middle school, and an upper school. ==History== In the 1893, Francis King Cook opened the Rugby School for Boys in the nearby village of Kenilworth.〔Kilner, Frederic Richard. Kenilworth: First Fifty Years, https://archive.org/details/kenilworthfirstf00kenirich.〕 Within the next decade, due to the opening of the fee-free Joseph Sears School, Cook moved his school to the present site today in Winnetka. Shortly after, the school reimagined itself as the Girton School For Girls.〔The Girton School for Girls yearbook, The Girtonian, 1907. https://archive.org/details/thegirtonian1907〕 The school built three more buildings on what was then known as the Garland Estate, but by 1918-19 the school began to encounter funding difficulties. A group of parents and alumni from the Girton School and local area came together in 1919 and chose Perry Dunlap Smith to found the North Shore Country Day School for girls and boys of all ages. With the popularity of the Country Day School movement, this was seen as the next logical step for the school. The school continues to have no class rankings and no academic awards. As it became clear the Country Day school would outlast its time as a traditional school, the founder and first headmaster Perry Dunlap Smith hired Chicago area architect Edwin H. Clark to redesign the school grounds.〔〔Edwin H. Clark designed many buildings in Chicago and its North Shore suburbs, including Winnetka Village Hall, Plaza del Lago in Wilmette, the Lincoln Park Zoo Reptile House, and the Chicago Zoological Park along with many private residences. http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/14436〕 The school was one of 27 schools selected from a group of 250 candidate schools in the U.S. chosen in 1933 for alternative admission standards for admission to 200 selective colleges. As a progressive country day school, there was to be an enriched core curriculum with independent study.〔"High Schools Begin A Big Experiment; Group Named to Test Newer Methods Under a Revised College Entrance Plan. 200 Colleges To Assist Units Scattered Over the Country Join in Effort to Systematize Student's Educational Career." By Wilford M. Aikin, Chairman Commission on the Relation of School and College. ''The New York Times''. New York, N.Y.: June 4, 1933. pg. E7〕〔"'Progressives' Hail New Type School; Advocates of 'Unshackled' Preparation Say Students Met College Tests. Entered Without Credits Records of 332 Men, Women In 18 Institutions Are Offered for Comparison. Social Problems Emphasized." By Eunive Barnard. ''The New York Times''. New York, N.Y.: August 1, 1937. pg. 77〕 The school sought to fit the curriculum to the students' needs, rather than to require a fixed course of instruction.〔"Tiny College Offers New Teaching Course; Illinois Institution Trains the Students to Aid Creative Ability of Children," ''The New York Times''. New York, N.Y.: November 21, 1937. pg. 5〕〔() Aikin, Wilford M. Adventure In American Education Volume I: The Story of the Eight-Year Study" Publisher: Harper and Brothers;New York and London. 1st edition (1942). ASIN: B000CEBXUU. retrieved November 20, 2006〕 The school has one of the highest endowments of local schools.〔http://www.nscds.org〕 At the height of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, in 1963, the school was one of 21 schools that publicly supported the Kennedy administration's policies of racial equality, stating that independent schools must offer the benefits of a quality education to all qualified students.〔"Private Schools Support Equality; Racial Statement Backed by 21 Secondary Educators", ''The New York Times''. New York, N.Y.: September 1, 1963. p. 43〕 Since the middle of the 20th century, the school has continued to excel, and despite closing its doors to borders in the 1970s, has gained an international focus, adding Mandarin Chinese to the curriculum, and since the early 2000s has maintained a relationship with its sister school Wycliffe College in England. Further, the school highly emphasises the idea of 'service-learning'. Today the school is regarded for secondary school as an alternative to New Trier High School, and has become stereotyped as being for the wealthiest few on Chicago's North Shore. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Shore Country Day School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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