Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keystone Academy
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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. GNG established. (non-admin closure) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 01:36, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
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Unable to find sufficient WP:SIGCOV in independent, reliable sources to meet WP:GNG/WP:NSCHOOL. Dclemens1971 (talk) 01:53, 3 September 2024 (UTC) Nomination withdrawn; see note below Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:07, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Schools and China. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 03:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Delete need more significant coverages. Xegma(talk) 13:10, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Delete lacks sources for notability --Loewstisch (talk) 08:39, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The subject passes Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Schools, which says:
SourcesAll universities, colleges and schools, including high schools, middle schools, primary (elementary) schools, and schools that only provide a support to mainstream education must either satisfy the notability guidelines for organizations, the general notability guideline, or both. For-profit educational organizations and institutions are considered commercial organizations and must satisfy those criteria. (See also WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES)
- Alsop, Zoe (2014-10-30). "Letter from Beijing: Inside the private schools educating China's elite". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
The article notes: "At the far corner of the abandoned village is a surprising sight: a tidy quadrangle of red-brick buildings stands behind a wrought-iron fence, looking like the Hollywood set of a school. Against the relentless grey of suburban Beijing, the grass lawns are so green they appear lit from within. This is Keystone Academy, whose website boasts that the school will nurture the emergence of “the Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg of China”, tapping in to the ambitions of the country’s new elite. Such schools are wary of journalists, so I posed as a prospective parent to take a look inside. Keystone Academy is modelled on a New England boarding school, and says it uses the same curriculum as Sidwell Friends, where Barack Obama’s daughters study. It is the brainchild of well-connected private investors, and it charges fees of up to £25,000 a year, roughly six times the per-capita income in China."
- Bao, Chengrong (2013-09-13). "Keystone Academy seeks students for new curriculum". Beijing Today. ProQuest 1674465023.
The article notes: "Keystone Academy, a new international school in Beijing, began recruiting its first batch of 300 students last week. Although the school is in its early stages of development, it has already attracted wide attention with its new education model and highly esteemed leadership team. Malcolm McKenzie, the school's founder, said any school can become an international school if it chooses. ... Unlike many of China's international schools, which accept only few students from the Chinese populace, Keystone plans to open 75 percent of its enrollment to locals. Students from Grades 1 to 12 will be required to study a curriculum that puts China in a global context and includes its history, art, culture, politics and geography. ... Keystone's education model focuses on an internationally recognized liberal arts curriculum. Younger students will study the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) that has been widely used at schools in 80 countries. In middle school, they will learn the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (IBMYP) that has been customized to suit the specific requirements of Keystone."
- Holahan, David (2018-02-25). "Keystone Academy - Exporting Education - Creating A U.S.-Style Prep School In Beijing". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
The article notes: "In 2011 a Chinese businessman who was familiar with Choate approached Shanahan, who was retiring that year, to help establish a private K-12 academy in Beijing. Shanahan in turn recruited McKenzie to be the head of school and enlisted Centerbrook Architects, a firm known for its work on independent school campuses, to design classrooms and other interior spaces. The result of this international collaboration is Keystone Academy, a day and boarding institution that opened in 2014; it now educates 12,000 students with a capacity for 6,000 more. McKenzie, who recruited several Hotchkiss colleagues to join him at Keystone, said that the current enrollment is more than 90 percent Chinese students, but the goal is to have a three-to-one ratio of indigenous to foreign students, the latter typically being the offspring of foreign officials or businesspeople living in the capital region."
- Huang, Jin 黄金 (2018-07-30). "临空港首所国际化学校 拟于2020年招生" [The first international school in Linkong Port plans to enroll students in 2020]. Changjiang Daily (in Chinese).
The article notes: "据了解,此前北京美联文华投资有限公司曾于北京市顺义区投资建设国际化学校——北京市鼎石学校。该学校采用沉浸式中英双语教学模式,教授国际课程。此次与武汉临空港经开区管委会签约建校项目,将参照北京市鼎石学校办学思路,结合武汉市教育国际化水平和现实需求,将学校建成武汉市内高水平的、小学到高中一贯制的国际化学校。"
From Google Translate: "It is understood that Beijing Meten Investment Co., Ltd. previously invested in the construction of an international school in Shunyi District, Beijing - Beijing Keystone School. The school adopts an immersive Chinese-English bilingual teaching model and teaches international courses. The school construction project signed with the Management Committee of Wuhan Linkonggang Economic Development Zone will refer to the school-running ideas of Beijing Keystone School, combined with the internationalisation level and actual needs of Wuhan's education, and build the school into a high-level, elementary to high school international school in Wuhan."
- Less significant coverage:
- "Ministry calms anxiety over private schools". Shanghai Daily. Xinhua News Agency. 2016-11-10. ProQuest 1838211347.
The article notes: "To the public, the law's definition of "for-profit" didn't appear so straightforward, since even some non-profit schools charge fees that some consider prohibitive. Keystone Academy, a school in Beijing, charges annual tuition of over 200,000 yuan (US$29,500) per student, four times the disposable income of an average Beijinger in 2015."
- "Ministry calms anxiety over private schools". Shanghai Daily. Xinhua News Agency. 2016-11-10. ProQuest 1838211347.
Cunard (talk) 10:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Cunard. Nomination withdrawn; keep per sources you identified. Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:06, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
- Alsop, Zoe (2014-10-30). "Letter from Beijing: Inside the private schools educating China's elite". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
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