INTERNATIONAL AWARD

955 Strong Student Body

95 clubs & activities

7:1 Studentteacher ratio

$51,000 ANNUAL TUITION

30% colored students

90% advanced degree-holder teachers

One of 6 global Dwight Schools in the world, the Dwight School in New York, was the first to offer the International Baccalaureate curriculum on American soil. The educational philosophy is simple: to spark the genius inside every child.

The school has taken advantage of its global connections to arrange 18 trips & exchanges so far across the USA and abroad. The school covers students from more than 40 nationalities. The school is known for starting its “Spark Tank Program” with weekly episodes where students are allowed to come up with application of academic ideas in the real world. Currently, there are 70 different student projects in the tank.

The school’s strong academic performance results from a number of strategies including its Quest Program. Designed to emulate Oxford University’s tutorial mentorship model, the program supports students with learning differences navigate the tough IB curriculum.

The school also boasts a resourceful Design, Engineering and Technology Program bringing the world’s latest tech possibilities to its students’ fingertips to explore.

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The Tang Dynasty era is considered the golden age of poetry in China’s history. One of the major poets of this age was Du Fu. He was a Confucian, and a politician, and his poetry serves as a great record of the era’s history and his personal life and times.

Du Fu was unable to carry his dreams of public life and lived through much adversity. That is why his language and lyricism are a timeless mix of erudition with compassion for the downtrodden. This eloquent painting of the common man’s life is beautifully illustrated in the poem we feature here.

The jingle of war chariots, Horses neighing, men marching, Bows and arrows slung over hips; Beside them stumbling, running

The mass of parents, wives and children

Clogging up the read, their rising dust

Obscuring the great bridge at Hsienyang; Stamping their feet, weeping

In utter desperation with cries

That seem to reach the clouds;

Ask a soldier: Why do you go?

Would simply bring the answer: Today men are conscripted often; Fifteen-year-olds sent up the Yellow River

To fight; men of forty marched away

To colonize the western frontier; Village elders take young boys, Do up their hair like adults

To get them off; if they return

It will be white with age, but even then They may be sent off to the frontier again;