{"id":17011,"date":"2011-09-15T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=17011"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:02:03","slug":"participants-sought-for-survey-regarding-area-interest-in-proposed-lab-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2011\/09\/15\/participants-sought-for-survey-regarding-area-interest-in-proposed-lab-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants Sought For Survey Regarding Area Interest In Proposed Lab School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Participants Sought For Survey Regarding Area Interest In Proposed Lab School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College of the Ozarks is determining the feasibility of opening a college preparatory lab school on campus.  As part of the feasibility study, the College is asking interested individuals who have school aged children to take part in a brief survey that will be accessible September 14-30.  Individuals willing to take part in the brief survey, which should take less than ten minutes to complete, may go to www.cofo.edu and click on the survey link.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInput regarding interest in the school is vital to determining feasibility,\u201d said Dr. Sue Head, study coordinator. \u201cParticipation will be greatly appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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>&#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<p>For more information about the online survey, please contact The Keeter Center for Character Education at (417) 690-2242.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants Sought For Survey Regarding Area Interest In Proposed Lab School College of the Ozarks is determining the feasibility of opening a college preparatory lab school on campus. As part of the feasibility study, the College is asking interested individuals who have school aged children to take part in a brief survey that will be [&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":[12,16,71,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011"}],"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=17011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}