Articles

  • This article is indebted to Professor Christine Perrin for her Essay Wheel and writing instruction, and to Dr. Zach Manis for his thoughtful curricular work and the “spiral staircase” analogy. The Problem: Strong, But Disconnected Writing Instruction Teaching writing across our entire academic program (grades 7–12 on campus and 5–12 on Gravitas) poses two steady…

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  • By: Dr. Sean A. Riley Chief Strategy Officer of The Stony Brook School A Stony Brook education has always been marked by two features: a conviction that faith and learning should be integrated because “all truth is God’s truth” and a focus on Christian character formation. Rejecting both the secularization of education and the anti-intellectualism…

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  • The following was delivered by Dr. Frank E. Gaebelein at the first convocation of The Stony Brook School in 1922. In his able volume on the American Secondary School, Prof. Julius Sachs, of Columbia University, remarks that one of the chief services of the private school has been its ability to point the way toward…

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