Residential education, broadly defined, is a pre-college

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

provided in an environment where

student A student is a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution, or more generally, a person who takes a special interest in a subject. In the United Kingdom and most The Commonwealth, commonwealth countries, a "student" attends ...

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. They have existed for many centuries, and now extend acr ...

s, preparatory schools,

orphanage An orphanage is a residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared by their biological families. The parents may be deceased, absent, or abusi ...

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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