Last month a team of eleven outside educators from some of the top schools in New England (including three from ISL schools) spent three...

I often hear prospective parents talk about trying to help their son or daughter find “the right fit” in an independent school. The conversa...

There are a lot of issues I have with Mark Edmundson’s article “Where Should I Go to College?” – the cynical tone, the thinly disguised ...

One of my favorite expressions is “best idea wins.” When I use it at faculty meetings, it’s not to challenge teachers to go beyond the stan...

This year Rivers introduced a new schedule, one that is significantly different from schedules of years past. With this new schedule, each c...

One of the key goals of our mission here at Rivers is to “prepare our students for leadership in a world that needs their talents, imaginati...

As I read David Brooks' brilliant editorial, "The Creative Monopoly,"  I could not help but think of Rivers and its mission. F...