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Wooster School is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory Pre-K-12 school in Danbury, Connecticut, in the United States. The school was founded in 1926 by Aaron Coburn. Wooster's four cardinal principles are simplicity, religion, hard work, and intellectual excellence. An Episcopal school, Wooster emphasizes community service and helping others. The school's mission is to "maintain a school for the intellectual, spiritual, ethical, aesthetic, and physical development of boys and girls of diverse backgrounds." Its motto is "Ex Quoque Potestate, Cuique Pro Necessitate," roughly, "From each according to ability, to each according to need." As of the 2003–04 school year, the school had an enrollment of 417 students and 56.1 faculty members (on a full-time equivalent basis) for a student-teacher ratio of 7.4.〔(Wooster School ), National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed October 20, 2007.〕 Notable alumni include award-winning folk singer and guitarist Tracy Chapman;〔Darling, Cary. ("Doing it her way: Tracy Chapman goes against the grain with her reflective songs" ), ''The Orange County Register'', May 25, 1990. Accessed October 19, 2007. "She was a student at Wooster High School in Danbury, Conn., with a budding taste for folk music and a flair for songwriting who corralled her courage and hit the pavement."〕〔(About Tracy Chapmen, official biography web site ). Accessed October 22, 2007.〕 the painter Andrew Stevovich; trial attorney Cyrus Mehri;〔(FindJustice.com web site ). Retrieved October 22, 2007. "His parents' educational aspirations led Mr. Mehri to the Wooster School. 'My years there had a formative influence on me,' he says. 'There probably isn't another prep school that has such a genuine commitment to diversity. Wooster really led the way in that respect. They had already integrated by the 1950s and the idea of diversity was embedded in the culture.' "〕 developer Marc Vandenhoeck;〔(New Jersey News story on school board candidates ). Retrieved October 22, 2007.〕 Zachary Cole Smith, singer and frontman of DIIV; 〔http://www.stereogum.com/1693522/how-does-it-feel-diivs-zachary-cole-smith-rolls-on/franchises/cover-story/〕 and Neil Rudenstine, president of Harvard University for a decade in the 1990s.〔Gewertz, Ken. ("Rudenstine's journey to Harvard began at 14" ), ''Harvard Gazette'', May 17, 2001. Accessed October 20, 2007. "Now he was about to enter the Wooster School, a private, college-preparatory institution. Although it was located in Danbury, Conn., his hometown, he would live at the school rather than at home."〕〔Catherine E. Shoichet, ''Rudenstine's Book Hits Shelves'', June 05, 2001, found at (''Harvard Crimson'' web site ). Accessed October 22, 2007. "In a 1998 speech given at the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Mass., Rudenstine spoke of the root of his passion for reading—a meeting with a high school adviser during his first term as a scholarship student at the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut. “I don’t remember trying to articulate for myself, at the time, what this entire experience actually meant to me,” he says."〕 The school has earned 5 stars on the "Great Schools" web site.〔(Great Schools web site )〕 It is a member of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools,〔(Connecticut Association of Independent Schools web site )〕 and other prep school groups.〔(Private School Report web page )〕 Wooster School is named for General David Wooster, who fought at the Battle of Ridgefield for the Colonial side in the American Revolution. The battlefield for the Danbury Raid is near the campus.〔(Danbury Historical Society web site )〕 The school was the first prep school to actively recruit minority candidates as a "feeder system" for elite Ivy League colleges, such as Harvard University.〔Michael Lerner, ''Plan Seeks Applications From Southern Negroes'', ''Harvard Crimson'', February 20, 1963, found at (The Crimson web site ). Retrieved October 22, 2007.〕 == Educational philosophy == Wooster follows a liberal arts tradition. Self-help has been one of the fundamental principles at Wooster since the school's founding in 1926. This philosophy places total responsibility for the physical environment of the school on the students. Students are not only responsible for cleaning and maintaining the campus, but also for the program's organization and management. As students in the Lower School (grades PreK - 5) progress through the grades, they assume more responsibility for their classrooms and the Lower School building. Students in the Middle and Upper Schools (grades 6 - 12) are in charge at all times of the upkeep of the whole school. In addition to self-help and volunteering, Upper School students meet the requirement of 100 hours of community service outside the Wooster community, which can be completed between the summer before freshman year and graduation. Seniors in good academical standing may also participate in the Senior Independent Study (SIS) program the last six weeks of their senior year, in which they pursue a community service project or career interest as a job off campus. Upon completion of SIS, each student submits a written report and makes an oral presentation to the faculty and senior classmates about what he or she learned.〔(Wooster School official web site )〕 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「Wooster School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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