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Chris Whittle’s Global School
Departures

March 11th, 2011 - “Worldwide, we need a new way of educating children,” says Chris Whittle, CEO of Avenues: The World School. Avenues will stress the global nature of the school. With its focus on being one school with 20 campuses around the world, Avenues hopes to help its students understand those other cultures.

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Elite Manhattan School Defies Old Preppy Cartel
Businessweek

February 28th, 2011 - "Along with the victory of 'The King’s Speech' over 'The Social Network' at the Oscars, the chatter among well-to-do New York parents is the plan for Avenues: The World School on Manhattan’s West Side,” writes Amity Shlaes for Bloomberg News.

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Chris Whittle’s Plan to Make a World-class Private School
Fortune

May 4th, 2011 - Avenues: The World School aims for nothing less than to reinvent private education. That's what the parents hear from Benno Schmidt, the former Yale president who is Avenues' chairman and fronts its academic pedigree. "There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come," he says.

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New K-12 School to Open in Chelsea
Wall Street Journal

January 31st, 2011 - Chris Whittle, Alan Greenberg and Benno Schmidt will announce that they are launching a for-profit school that will open in September 2012 on the High Line in Chelsea. The former warehouse building will be converted into a 10-story school building housing students in grades nursery through 12.

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Classroom Supermen: A Global Vision for the Future of Education
Big Think

February 28th, 2011 - If you had a chance to create the perfect K-12 educational institution from scratch - how would you do it? You'd probably start by hand-selecting some of the smartest and most talented educators in the world to develop the vision for the school. Then, you'd ask them to implement a new global curriculum.

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New Chelsea school will cater to ages 3 to 18
Crain’s New York Business

January 31st, 2011 - “We think parents both here and in other great cities around the world are very interested in their children graduating with a sense of the broader world. As the world evolves, so must our educational system.” So declares Avenues: The World School Chief Executive Officer Chris Whittle.

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First `Global School’ Set to Open in NY This Year
Bloomberg Television

September 9th, 2011 - Chris Whittle and Benno Schmidt speak on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." Topics covered include the outlook for U.S. education, the private sector's role in school reform and how cultural conditions affect education.

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Starting local, going global: “Avenues: The World School” debuts grand plan
Chelsea Now

February 2nd, 2011 - “Increasingly, life is going to get more and more international,” said Chris Whittle, CEO of Avenues: The World School, “and so your capabilities to navigate in other cultures are going to be helpful—whether you’re in the art world or banking.”

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Avenues: A Path To A New Reality
Forbes

March 14th, 2011 - Avenues is turning the process of applying to private schools in Manhattan upside down. “Not only is it planning to base its admissions process on a comprehensive evaluation of the child, it is also perhaps the first school to recognize, deep in its newly hued educator bones, that the world is our campus, not the rarified air of Manhattan.”

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“World School” announces first of 20 campuses in NYC
Reuters

January 31st, 2011 - Avenues announces the first of 20 campuses around the world. The New York City campus will be the first, followed by campuses in leading cities. With a global curriculum, CEO Chris Whittle and his team have visited 17 of the cities they are considering.

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