Academies

That they are called Academies is actually a vintage term from their time.

Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias on Maddow 2009

“By providing discipline and support, as well as an atmosphere in which teachers are passionate about teaching, Harlem Village Academies is changing the lives of its children while serving as a model for other schools across the nation.”

Pauletta and Denzel Washington Scholarships in Harlem « 2010

Arising about the middle of the eighteenth century, a number of so-called Academies had been founded before the new

The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

On April 19, Michael Weiner, the new executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, will speak on issues confronting baseball players, including the 2011 expiration of the current players 'contract, drug use and testing, and the development of young players in the U.S. and in Latin Academies.

Penn State Live 2010

Then they bought into the idea of Academies - sponsored by industry (oh yeah!) which would turn around the failing schools.

Word Magazine - Comments 2009

However, there's going to be a 5 yr track where if they can't get out of that track they're going to be put into 'Academies' where they'll have the opportunity to learn genuine skills that they can go out and get a meaningful career with and not make them feel like a failure for not being on the 'college bound' track.

College Admission Insanity Academic 2008

What future have they got now - one of Cameronblair's "Academies"?

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Those who "farmed the paupers" pleaded to be released from their contracts or for special compensation; proprietors of Boarding Schools, or "Academies," as they were generally called, had to modify their terms and to plead for compensation, while the King on his throne found the Civil List insufficient even with that Spartan order adopted by His Majesty,

Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

In the year mentioned, Mesmer sent out a circular letter to various scientific societies or "Academies" as they are called in Europe, stating his belief that "animal magnetism" existed, and that through it one man could influence another.

Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use A. Alpheus

Literati and scholars streamed into Peking, especially members of the "Academies" that still existed in secret, men who had been the chief sufferers from the conditions at the end of the Ming epoch.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949