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DEERFIELD ACADEMY: Philip Greer

The Elite of the Elite: 2011 Private School Power Players

For most Americans, Thanksgiving is a time of pleasure and company, tables heaping with food and surrounded by families and friends. But for a select few, this time of year brings on a feeling of envy and dread: You only get one chance to provide your children with entrée into elite society—and we’re not talking about dark meat. That’s right, frenzied mothers and fathers throughout Manhattan are working around the clock to finish their kids’ applications to top private schools. This is not child’s play. Read More

Anisha Lakhani, Ex-Dalton Teacher, Spills the Beans in New Novel; ‘You Can’t Help If Someone Calls You a Hypocrite’

"It’s a story about a teacher, but it’s also a story about how certain children on a certain island are getting through schools seemingly magically, but maybe not so," said the tutor-cum-novelist Anisha Lakhani the other day. Her first book, Schooled, out this week, was inspired by her experiences teaching and tutoring wealthy Manhattan schoolchildren. Read More