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The Starfish Country Home School Foundation was registered as a non-profit organization in Thailand in March 2005. The foundation’s principal offices are located outside the Mae Taeng District, about 45 km (27 miles) north of the city of Chiangmai in northern Thailand. The use of Starfish in the name of the Starfish Country Home School Foundation originates from the famous parable of Loren Eisley, The Star Thrower. That story reflects the philosophy of the Starfish Country Home School Foundation of trying to give significant assistance to a relatively small number of beneficiaries so as to have a large impact on their lives. Activities of the Starfish Country Home School Foundation are completely funded by the Richard P. Haugland Foundation, an American 501(c)(3) private foundation incorporated in Washington state. Dr. Richard P. Haugland is founder and president of both the Starfish Country Home School Foundation and the Richard P. Haugland Foundation. Along with Dr. Rosaria P. Haugland, he founded Molecular Probes Inc. in 1975. Molecular Probes was eventually sold to Invitrogen in August 2003. He was a chemistry graduate of Hamline University and received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970. Drs. Richard and Rosaria Haugland received honorary doctorates from Hamline University in 2006. The Vice President of the Starfish Country Home School Foundation is Dr. Nanthaporn Seributra, while the foundation's manager is Mrs. Nathi Schumann. The Starfish Country Home School Foundation is not affiliated with any religious or political organization. The Starfish Country Home School Foundation supports its own activities but also funds worthwhile programs in child education, medical care and for street children in Asia. ==Starfish Country Home School (Creativity Center)== In April 2005 the Starfish Country Home School Foundation completed purchase of the site of a former resort on the Ping River and remodeled this for use as a home and free bilingual school for needy hill tribe children. The Starfish Country Home School (Creativity Center) opened in June 2005 with 10 students. It was registered with the Thailand Education Ministry as a kindergarten (anubaan) in 2006 and as a primary school (prathom) in 2008. Teaching is in a combination of English and Thai plus the hill tribe languages. In March 2012 the Starfish Country Home School had 52 resident children, almost all of whom are either Hmong or Lisu, and 24 Thai day students. The school has three kindergarten classes and six primary school classes. The school uses a curriculum that it calls Thaiglish to teach English. Thaiglish is a picture-based curriculum that uses a combination of Thai and English script to more accurately represent the sound of American English words. The school has also developed its own curriculum for teaching mathematics. The mathematics curriculum is based on work initially done by Dr. Richard P. Haugland when working as a volunteer teacher at the Pine Point Indian School in Minnesota in 1970–1972. Most of the primary school students at the Starfish Country Home School study Western ballet, jazz and Thai classical dancing. 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「Starfish Country Home School Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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