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your editors believe that learning they comprise all schools under three
should be a joyful experience for broad categories — day, boarding
children and youth. and international. Ivy League school
An inevitable consequence of tables are not divided into 14 sub-
pioneering the annual EWISR is categories such as co-ed, boys and
that several pretender publications girls as are standard league tables.
driven exclusively by the profit mo- All are ranked #1 and differentiated
tive and shallow commitment to the by award of stars and grade points to
larger cause of “building the pressure prompt continuous improvement.
of public opinion to make education Against this backdrop in this
the #1 item on the national agenda” October edition we present the EW
have clambered aboard the schools Ivy League Boarding Schools league
ranking bandwagon and publish table of five outstanding, role model
plagiarized versions of EWISR. boarding schools comprising the
Therefore to remain ahead and routinely top-ranked co-ed Rishi
differentiate us from them, the an- Valley School, Chittoor (Andhra
nual EWISR is continuously evolving Pradesh, estb. 1926); the all-boys
by way of refreshing parameters of Ravaglia: cluster rankings advice The Doon School, Dehradun
school education excellence. Among (1935); all-boys Mayo College,
the new parameters introduced in of Stanford University Pre-Collegiate Ajmer (1875); co-ed Pinegrove
recent years are curriculum and Studies and Founder of the Stanford School, Dharampur, Himachal
pedagogy, internationalism and Online High School, and currently a Pradesh (1991); and Chinmaya In-
mental and emotional wellbeing ser- Director of the US-based education ternational Residential School,
vices. Moreover beginning this year, research firm Launchpad Rankings Coimbatore (1996), and all girls
drawing inspiration from America’s LLC. Through use of sophisticated Scindia Kanya Vidyaya, Gwalior
globally respected Ivy League uni- AI-driven technologies Launchpad (Madhya Pradesh, 1956). Although
versities, we have introduced a new has number-crunched previous all these outstanding, globally
category of Ivy League schools. years’ EWISR parameter scores comparable boarding schools which
Ivy League schools are primary- and information contained in our are role models for private school
secondaries that have been consis- database about schools’ board exam promoters in India and Afro-Asia
tently high ranked in previous years, results and teacher/student perfor- countries to emulate, deserve sepa-
with sustained high scores under mance in tests such as EW-Centa rate interviews, time and editorial
critically important parameters such Teacher Subject Competency, LogiQ- bandwidth constraints have ruled
as teacher welfare and competence; ids Higher Order Thinking Skills and out this desideratum.
academic reputation, co-curricular Global Young Scholar tests, and has Saurav Sinha, the highly
and sports education, individual at- recommended India’s best high- qualified (Delhi University, London
tention to students, parental involve- performance schools for elevation to School of Business) principal of
ment and special needs education. Ivy League status. Mayo College, Ajmer, welcomes
These consistently high-performing EducationWorld’s decade-old EW’s Ivy League schools innova-
institutions have been elevated to the partnership with the Michigan-based tion. “It’s an excellent idea to group
Ivy League category of select schools. Ravaglia and Launchpad LLC runs routinely top-ranked schools in their
“When the quality of education deep. Earlier this year in partnership categories and award them equal
provided by schools is too close to with Launchpad, EducationWorld recognition and yet provide them op-
call, it’s advisable to cluster rank and attained the distinction of publishing portunities to strive for continuous
differentiate them by star point rank- India’s first ever rankings survey of improvement by improving their pa-
ings reflecting minor decimal point America’s best undergrad colleges/ rameter scores,” says Sinha who ac-
differences. This rankings innovation universities (see https://education- quired a wealth of business manage-
acknowledges that selecting suit- world.in/rankings-americas-best- ment and administration experience
able schools isn’t about fine-grained universities-2025/). in banking, healthcare, and digital
metrics but about understanding the Last month we presented league marketing in London, Europe, and
overall quality, focus and educa- tables featuring 17 Ivy League Day Singapore and returned to India to
tional environments that excellent schools selected from among 3,000 establish the digital business of the
schools provide,” says Raymond Day co-ed, boys and girls, and Walt Disney Co (India) in 2008, be-
Ravaglia, a Stanford University vintage legacy schools. A feature of fore switching tracks to teach English
alum and former Dean and Director the Ivy League league tables is that and economics in top-ranked schools

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