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[quote=Anonymous][quote=pbraverman][quote=Anonymous]I am an Asian parent. Maybe it's my culture, but I do not care about facilities or prestige. I care about the quality of teaching and results. Somebody mentioned it to me but I did not have the time to verify it: is it true that Maret has the highest concentration of PHDs in its faculty compared to all the other DC privates?   [/quote]

I agree entirely that the quality of teaching is by far the most important aspect of a school's appeal. However, I was a teacher for three years and a private school administrator for 20, and I have never seen even the slightest correlation between a Ph.D. degree and the quality of teaching. I hired and worked with fantastic teachers from no-name colleges, and I fired teachers with degrees from schools near the top of the US News list.

The skills needed to obtain a Ph.D. and those needed to communicate effectively with a roomful of eighth graders are almost entirely distinct, perhaps even incompatible. As much as we'd like to believe we've found the formula for the perfect [student, teacher, school, life], we haven't. That's because there is no formula.[/quote]

There's also no data that Maret has the highest concentration of PhD in its faculty relative to other DC privates.  But if you click your heels together and wish, perhaps it will come true.[/quote]

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