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Emerson Preparatory School is a small private high school in Northwest Washington, DC, founded in 1852 as the Emerson Institute. It is Washington's oldest co-ed college preparatory school. A student can typically complete an entire four-year high school education in as few as two and a half years at Emerson. Educational institutions are often categorised along several dimensions. ...
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1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
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A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. ...
The diversity of students includes the exceptionally gifted and the children of ambassadors who want their children to get an American high school education in the limited time they are stationed in Washington. Emerson also welcomes students dissatisfied with larger schooling environments. The school serves students from Maryland, DC, and Virginia. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Gifted education. ...
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The school is located at 1324 18th Street NW, near Dupont Circle and Embassy Row. Emerson has occupied its present location since 1937. Shops located along 18th Street NW, in Adams Morgan. ...
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History
Emerson was founded in 1852 by Charles B. Young as a school to prepare young boys exclusively for Harvard. It was named for Dr. George Barrell Emerson, a noted New England educator, author, and Harvard graduate. After the Civil War the school started sending students to other colleges and universities, and, in 1920, became Washington's first coeducational preparatory school. 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...
George Barrell Emerson(September 12 1797- March 14 1881) was an american educator and pioneer of womens education. ...
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1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
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It is thought by some who know the school that John Wilkes Booth[1]may have attended Emerson. All that is verifiable is that he attended a preparatory school in the Washington area in the mid-19th century, and Emerson was one of the few at that time. The school has a number of Abraham Lincoln busts and paintings. John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. ...
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Emerson graduates include actor Jared Leto[2][3] (class of 1989). Science fiction author William F. Gibson, graduated from Emerson School in 1970. Judge John "Maximum John" Sirica[4]of Watergate fame attended Emerson circa 1920. Buck and Jesse Root Grant, the sons of President Ulysses S. Grant, attended Emerson Institute during his White House years, 1869-1877. Jared Joseph Leto (born December 26, 1971) is an American actor and musician. ...
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Emerson's school seal features an image of the U.S. Capitol dome and the date 1852. The school mascot is the owl, symbolizing wisdom.
Academics and Faculty Emerson achieves its rapid graduation (typically within two and a half to three years) through very small class sizes, typically never larger than ten students,[5] and the use of the term system. The school requires student applicants to submit three letters of recommendation, participate in a personal interview, and take two placement exams, one in English and one in mathematics.
The school's academic year is modeled after the British System and has two terms per year rather than two semesters. Courses are completed during each four-and-a-half month term. A summer session is offered from late June through early August (six weeks). Each term schedule includes four ninety-minute classes per day, five days per week. During the forty-minute lunch period, from 11:20 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., students are allowed to leave the school grounds and buy lunch in the Dupont Circle area. Apart from the traditional curriculum, private tutors are available for advanced level and non-standard courses.
Emerson has approximately ten to fifteen teachers, and most teach on a part-time basis. Some Emerson teachers only teach one class or a one-to-one tutorial. A typical classload for an instructor is two to three 90-minute classes per day.
These administrative policies contribute to the excellent character and quality of the teachers, who form the backbone of the faculty. Any given school year has a core group of teachers who have been with the school for more than three years. Several of the current core group have taught at the school for five or more years.
Emerson draws many of its teachers from among the disciplines in which they actually work: it is not unusual for scientists, writers, economists, language scholars, lawyers, and historians to work as teachers. Some Emerson teachers are mid-career in their fields, others are retired, and still others are early-career or in the final stages of their masters' or doctorate degree programs.
Teachers are drawn to Emerson because it gives them the freedom to structure creative curricula, design unique and advanced level courses, and set their own classroom rules. Some Emerson classes are run strictly while others are more relaxed. One instructor currently incorporates periods of relaxation and meditation techniques into ongoing lessons, while another has been known to assign as many as sixteen books in a single term, teaching at a level of rigor comparable to advanced undergraduate work. The students themselves are the primary quality-control device; they select many of their classes and can request certain teachers.
Emerson course offerings have included:
Advanced Topics in Science (or as it came to be known, "Advanced Spaceships");
Biography: Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin and Karl Marx;
Cultural Anthropology;
Twentieth Century American Cultural History (nicknamed "That Seventies Class" by students);
Issues in Science II: Zoology and Oceanography;
Art History;
Vocabulary Skills: The Story of English;
an American Literature class with a curriculum based on the rivers and landscapes of North and South America;
Irish Literature;
Theory of Knowledge/Intro to Philosophy;
Astronomy;
International Relations; and Intro to Law. Sigmund Freud (IPA: ), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ...
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Many of these classes were requested by students, or designed by teachers on the basis of discussions and interests revealed by faculty and students in a previous term. Students often participate in the planning of a class, although final course selections are determined by the school director in accordance with the overall needs of the student body during a given term.
Classes for the spring term of 2007 include one on military history entitled War and Peace-20th Century Foreign Policy, Economics, a Comparative Literature class that examines lyric and narrative modes embracing conventional metric poetry, music, film, and fiction; and a creative writing class that focuses on narrative and includes a unit centered on Shakespeare's tragedy King LearCore academics such as Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, English Composition, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, U.S. History, American Government, and Foreign Languages are offered each term. King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is a play by William Shakespeare, considered one of his greatest tragedies, based on the legend of King Lear of Britain. ...
Emerson's daily ninety-minute class periods provide teachers with time to structure their classes to include more discussion, in-depth individual or team work, and extended lessons in a single day. Many teachers use the extra time for multimedia presentations like movies or music relevant to the course.
Student Body Emerson has a diverse student body, with students as young as 11 years old and as old as 19 or 20 years old, and students from all parts of the world. The Emerson environment is casual and friendly. It is not uncommon for students to leave larger schools because of social or academic issues, come to Emerson and quickly find themselves able to manage what was too hard before. Emerson is welcoming and flexible. Each new student is hand-picked, so Emerson is able to select students based on more than just transcripts and reports. Emerson admits many teenagers who have done poorly in other school settings, when they are confident that the student will be able to succeed in the unusually nurturing and manageable Emerson environment.
Although Emerson does not offer a specific number of formal scholarships or financial aid, these factors are examined in concert with families of prospective students when financial limitations exist. Emerson admits students from a wide variety of racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds.
Emerson had successful sports, drama,[6] and chess teams under Dean Humphrey, the school's headmaster from 1939-1999, but since 1945 Emerson's main focus and strength has been on academics and preparing students for college level work. Emerson's single extracurricular activity is Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, the Vex Robotics Team. The FIRST Vexâ„¢ Challenge (FVC) is a mid-level robotics competition targeted toward high-school aged students. ...
Location Emerson owns two conjoined townhouses in the Dupont Circle area of downtown DC. The building has 10 classrooms, a science laboratory, and a library/computer room where students can study or use the computers to do research on the web. The school also has wireless internet, which is great for students who prefer to bring their own laptops to school. There is an attractive and private courtyard behind the school building. During the Spring, Summer and early Fall, some teachers will hold an occasional class in the courtyard. The Emerson Automaton Society uses the courtyard as a safe place to use power tools. Image File history File links Dcstub_icon. ...
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