Residential education, broadly defined, is a pre-college

education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Va ...

provided in an environment where

student A student is a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution. In the United Kingdom and most commonwealth countries, a "student" attends a secondary school or higher (e.g., college or university); those in primary or elementar ...

s both live and learn outside their family homes. Some typical forms of residential education include

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...

s, preparatory schools,

orphanage An orphanage is a Residential education, residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the Childcare, care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parent ...

s, children and youth villages, residential academies, military schools and, most recently, residential charter schools.

References

* Flint, Anthony, "Boarding School Approach to Youths At Risk Questioned", ''Boston Globe'', August 16, 1993. * Goldsmith, Heidi, "The Renaissance of Residential Education in the U.S." Conference Summary, October 2000.

External links

CORE: the Coalition for Residential Education
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