{"id":15361,"date":"2011-08-17T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=15361"},"modified":"2011-09-08T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T17:11:18","slug":"college-of-the-ozarks-explores-feasibility-of-lab-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2011\/08\/17\/college-of-the-ozarks-explores-feasibility-of-lab-school\/","title":{"rendered":"College of the Ozarks Explores Feasibility of Lab School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>College of the Ozarks Explores Feasibility of Lab School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College of the Ozarks is determining the feasibility of opening a college preparatory lab school.  The new secondary level school would reflect the College&#8217;s philosophical views by interweaving a biblical worldview, character education, and patriotism into rigorous academic curriculum grounded in the Great Books.<\/p>\n<p>Dean of Character Education Dr. Sue Head has been charged with researching and creating a framework for a secondary level school that could eventually serve as a model to other colleges and communities. She visited several successful private schools over the summer and gathered &#8220;best practices&#8221; as part of her study.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In keeping with the College&#8217;s mission and vision, we hope to serve students in our area who seek a challenging curriculum with an intentional threading of service learning and work,\u201d Dr. Head said. \u201cThe College was founded as a work school over one hundred years ago, and the new school would reflect the values of the founders.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The proposed lab school would offer area youth the opportunity of an affordable, quality, Christian education with innovative programming, service learning, and small class sizes.<\/p>\n<p>The feasibility study, which began in April, will conclude in October with a presentation to the College\u2019s Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College of the Ozarks Explores Feasibility of Lab School College of the Ozarks is determining the feasibility of opening a college preparatory lab school. The new secondary level school would reflect the College&#8217;s philosophical views by interweaving a biblical worldview, character education, and patriotism into rigorous academic curriculum grounded in the Great Books. Dean of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[12,16,71,31,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}