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Time of India
01-08-2025
- General
- Time of India
7 private high schools in Texas that parents and students should know about
St. John's School, Houston, Texas Private high schools in Texas are known for offering world-class academics, strong college counselling, and extracurricular breadth. For families considering a private education, these seven schools stand out for their reputations, resources, and ability to shape confident, well-rounded students. Each institution has its own strengths from global curricula to leadership development to exceptional arts and athletics. Here are seven such private high schools in Texas that parents and students should consider. St. John's School , Houston Student-teacher ratio: 6:1 Founded in 1946, St. John's School has built a legacy of academic excellence and integrity. It's one of the most selective and competitive schools in Texas, with consistently high SAT scores and an impressive record of Ivy League and top-tier college admissions. The campus fosters an intellectually driven environment, offering more than 60 student clubs, a robust visual and performing arts program, and varsity athletics in 13 sports. A key feature is its commitment to classical liberal arts education, preparing students to think deeply and lead responsibly. St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas Student-teacher ratio: 9:1 St. Mark's is a premier all-boys school that has earned national recognition for its rigorous academics, advanced STEM programs, and accomplished alumni network. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 11 Foods That Help In Healing Knee Pain Naturally Undo From robotics to literary journals, students are encouraged to lead and innovate. With a campus housing state-of-the-art science labs, an observatory, and a fine arts centre, St. Mark's nurtures both analytical minds and creative talent. The school is deeply committed to character education and community service, instilling values of honour and leadership. The Village School, Houston Student-teacher ratio: 7:1 This internationally oriented school offers a future-focused education with strong pathways in STEM, entrepreneurship, and global studies. A member of the Nord Anglia Education family, The Village School partners with institutions like MIT and Juilliard to deliver world-class enrichment programs. Its diverse student body—with representation from more than 60 countries—creates a global classroom experience. Boarding options, an International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma, and a focus on innovation make this school ideal for globally minded families. The John Cooper School, The Woodlands Student-teacher ratio: 6:1 Located in one of Houston's most sought-after suburbs, The John Cooper School emphasises a balanced education rooted in college readiness. Students benefit from a challenging curriculum with AP offerings across disciplines, including the humanities, math, and sciences. The school fosters creative and athletic growth through award-winning arts programs, championship-level sports teams, and leadership clubs. Its college counselling office is known for personalised guidance, helping students find their best-fit postsecondary path. The Awty International School, Houston Student-teacher ratio: 9:1 Awty is Houston's largest international school and the only institution in the city offering both the International Baccalaureate (IB) and the French Baccalauréat. The school blends academic rigor with global awareness, offering a bilingual curriculum in English and French or Spanish. Students often go on to attend universities in North America, Europe, and beyond. Its multicultural community and international faculty provide a uniquely enriching environment for students seeking a globally connected education. The Hockaday School, Dallas Student-teacher ratio: 9:1 As one of the country's leading all-girls schools, The Hockaday School offers an academically challenging program alongside a strong commitment to ethics and leadership. Founded in 1913, it combines tradition with innovation, featuring state-of-the-art science labs, a professional-grade performing arts center, and one of the few on-campus boarding programs in the region. Hockaday graduates consistently gain admission to top colleges, and the school's mentorship-based approach encourages young women to pursue careers in science, law, public service, and the arts. St. Stephen's Episcopal School, Austin Student-teacher ratio: 8:1 Set on a 370-acre hilltop campus in the Texas Hill Country, St. Stephen's is known for its serene environment and commitment to holistic education. It offers a college preparatory curriculum grounded in Episcopal values, emphasising intellectual inquiry, compassion, and inclusivity. The school includes both day and boarding students and places a strong emphasis on outdoor education, leadership programs, and global studies. Its community culture promotes self-expression, service, and environmental responsibility. TOI Education is on WhatsApp now. Follow us here . Ready to navigate global policies? Secure your overseas future. Get expert guidance now!
CBC
20-03-2025
- Science
- CBC
Her grandfather waters his garden with laundry water. She tested it for science
Hello, Earthlings! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday. This week: Her grandfather waters his garden with laundry water. She tested it for science. The Big Picture: Voices for the wild What if we put solar panels on every roof in the world? Her grandfather waters his garden with laundry water. She tested it for science. Tanvir Mundra of Vancouver won first prize in the Earth and Environmental Sciences category of the Taiwan International Science Fair for a project that tested laundry water for watering plants. (Submitted by Tanvir Mundra) This winter, there was a drought in India's Punjab province , where Tanvir Mundra's grandfather lives. One of his tricks for saving water is to pour water from his laundry, known as grey water, onto his garden. It's a tip he shared with his granddaughter, who lives in Vancouver, during their regular Facetime calls. And it inspired a science project that recently won Mundra first prize in the Earth and Environmental Sciences category of the Taiwan International Science Fair . Mundra, now a Grade 10 student at St. John's School in Vancouver, asked her grandfather if his laundry water ever harmed the flowers, vegetables and herbs he grew. He said he never gave it much thought. Mundra wondered if the trick to making that work was her grandfather's detergent. "My grandparents, they're often telling me how nowadays we're always the ones using so many man-made synthetic cleaning chemicals when there are natural alternatives out there," she recalled. For laundry detergent, her grandfather uses soap nuts — the fruit of a tree called Sapindus mukorossi, which is native to India, China, Japan and Taiwan. They contain high levels of natural detergents called saponins. Eco-blogs and at least one environmental group recommend them as an eco-friendly soap, and they've even been pitched as a laundry detergent to CBC's Dragon's Den . Mundra decided to test out her grandfather's method of growing plants with laundry water. The first challenge was finding soap nuts, which aren't sold alongside other detergents at supermarkets. Eventually, Mundra found some at a small specialty store in Vancouver. Soap nuts don't work in the dispenser for liquid or powder detergents, but Mundra put a handful in a mesh bag and added them to the dirty clothes in her washing machine. "They do work," she said, leaving behind a subtle scent that she described as being similar to "apple vinegar." (Others have said that soap nuts generally work well compared to commercial detergents. However, they don't leave your white clothes as bright and can stain fabrics that come into direct contact. .) The same bag of soap nuts can be used up to five times, she said. Mundra collected the grey water from her soap nut laundry and from a load of laundry that used regular detergent. Then she planted 30 spinach seeds, and watered each one with either soap nut grey water, regular laundry detergent grey water or tap water. Spinach seedlings were unaffected by grey water sourced from laundry using soap nuts, but didn't do very well when watered with water containing commercial laundry detergents. (Submitted by Tanvir Mundra) The regular laundry detergent water stunted the growth of the spinach plants — so, you might want to avoid using that for watering your garden. But the plants grown with tap water and soap nut laundry water grew equally well. "There's zero effect at all … in terms of plant height, leaf length, root length," Mundra said. But did it affect the taste of the spinach? Mundra said she was told she couldn't eat the spinach afterward, just in case "something goes wrong." She's now doing more tests on more plants. She's also trying to find a way to extract the saponins from the soap nuts to develop a liquid detergent "that can fit into Western culture" and help people be more sustainable. "If we can actually start reusing our own household water wastage, such as dirty water from the laundry, then we're actually saving and conserving a lot of water." — Emily Chung Old issues of What on Earth? are here . The CBC News climate page is here . Check out our podcast and radio show. In our newest episode : It might not sound like a climate job, but mechanical insulators help make buildings more energy efficient. We head out to meet a young woman who trained in the trade through a program set up by the Youth Climate Corps B.C. The group, which trains young people around British Columbia for a wide variety of good, green jobs, hopes to expand across the country. What On Earth 22:08 Move over Peace Corps, meet Climate Corps. Enlist now! What On Earth drops new podcast episodes every Wednesday and Saturday. You can find them on your favourite podcast app or on demand at CBC Listen . The radio show airs Sundays at 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m. in Newfoundland and Labrador. Have a compelling personal story about climate change you want to share with CBC News? Pitch a First Person column here . Reader Feedback Last week, Anand Ram wrote about a workshop in Toronto that helps people sort their waste into the right bins to maximize recycling . For a coffee cup, it recommended sorting the lid into "recycling," putting the sleeve in "paper," and the cup itself in the garbage. Zamani Ra, the event's host, later wrote in to say she'd been alerted that was incorrect. "The city reached out to me with an update to the blue bin that I wasn't aware of when we did our workshop," she explained. As of last July, coffee cups are accepted for recycling in the City of Toronto . Many readers also wrote in to point this out. Thank you all! Write us at whatonearth@ . (And feel free to send photos, too!) The Big Picture: Voices for the Wild (Submitted by Lisa Kimberly Glickman) Lisa Mintz is a Montreal librarian who turned to activism after becoming concerned about development that threatened trees and animals in a large urban green space called the Saint-Jacques Escarpment. In this portrait, by Quebec artist Lisa Kimberly Glickman, Mintz stands among fragrant sumac alongside a brown snake and a red fox, as chimney swifts soar overhead. Mintz is now the executive director of UrbaNature, a group that aims to provide nature-based learning in urban and suburban areas. The portrait is part of a series called Voices for the Wild, featuring women among animals and in habitats they have fought to protect. "I want to show that anybody can be an activist. You don't have to tie yourself to a tree or do research," said Glickman. She tries to include people from a variety of fields, such as novelist Kate Bush, Green Party deputy leader Angela Davidson, and Dalhousie University professor Alana Westwood, as well as well-known activists Maude Barlow and Autumn Peltier. She hopes the series will make people aware of these women's work and "hopefully, you know, spur people to action." Glickman hopes to add several more women to the series. On her website, you can see more of the portraits and suggest women to include.. — Emily Chung Hot and bothered: Provocative ideas from around the web What if we put solar panels on every roof in the world? What if we put solar panels on every roof in the world? Duration 2:30 What if every rooftop on Earth were covered with solar panels? A group of mostly Chinese scientists have calculated it could cool the planet up to 0.13 C by 2050. Zhixin Zhang and team published their modelling study in Nature Climate Change earlier this month. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe takes a closer look at how they did the study and what the findings mean. Thanks for reading. If you have questions, criticisms or story tips, please send them to whatonearth@ . What on Earth? comes straight to your inbox every Thursday. Editors: Emily Chung and Hannah Hoag | Logo design: Sködt McNalty
