NEWS ARTICLES

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.”