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Pennsylvania · PennsylvaniaOn the historic Pennsylvania Main Line, a stretch of affluent communities 13 miles west of Philadelphia, choice is a given. It’s woven into the very fabric of life, from the old stone manors to the prestigious private schools of the Inter-Academic League that dot the landscape. Here, legacy is a currency and exclusivity is an expectation. It is precisely this environment that makes the Radnor Township School District so fascinating. In a place w…Read Article
Radnor Township School District: The Public School as a Destination
Lincolnshire, Illinois · LincolnshireThe first thing you notice about Adlai E. Stevenson High School is the scale. It doesn’t feel like a high school so much as a well-funded corporate campus or a small, exceptionally tidy city. Sprawled across 76 acres of suburban Illinois prairie, its buildings are connected by a glass-encased walkway known simply as “The Link.” Students move through it with a purpose that seems less like the bell-driven shuffle of teenagers and more like the foc…Read Article
Adlai E. Stevenson High School: How a Suburban Behemoth Became a Blueprint for Public Education
Northbrook, Illinois · NorthbrookTo stand outside Glenbrook North High School is to stand in a frame of collective memory. You can almost see him: Ferris Bueller, impossibly cool, convincing his girlfriend Sloane to skip school from the payphone near the front steps. The building, a long sweep of brick and glass, is an icon, a backdrop for the cinematic angst and adventure of filmmaker John Hughes, an alumnus who used its exteriors for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and its interiors…Read Article
