"The goal is over 10 years to make this one of the premier school districts in the region," Marcus Robinson of the Consortium for Community Development told me.
Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, I had my basic education at the prestigious Royal College, Colombo, a public school established by the Queen of England, which to date remains Sri Lanka?s leading premier school.
Many of the nation's medical and public health leaders, including CDC directors, state health department directors, state epidemiologists, and deans of the country's premier schools of public health, are EIS alumni.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The International Islamic University here, one of the country's premier schools, prides itself as a unique center of learning that combines "the essentials of the Islamic faith with the best of modern knowledge," as its Web site says.
Jahmir, one of Explore's few Hispanic students, is its first student to get into Stuyvesant High School, one of the city's premier schools.
And it happened to be within the district of the premier elementary school, Public School 321.
Curiously, the dean who made the call said that while "this is not what you want to do as the dean of a premier journalism school," she was "unwilling to take any risk".
The school was described by The Daily Telegraph as "one of the premier cricketing schools of the north".
Problems at one of Los Angeles' premier private schools surfaced in June, when a former student wrote an online essay accusing a popular English teacher of inappropriate conduct.
"In the 1970s, the odds were against them," says Bakul Dholakia, director of Asia's premier business school, the Indian Institute of Management, in Ahmedabad.
