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beacon school

noun

  1. a notably successful school whose methods and practices are brought to the attention of the education service as a whole in order that they may be adopted by other schools

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Thirteen-year-old Mayla's mother, Kerry, accused Barr Beacon School in Walsall of racial discrimination and said her daughter was singled out.

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The teenagers from Barr Beacon School in Walsall were due home from a skiing trip on Saturday but have stayed four more days to get emergency documents.

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Amelia, a junior at the Beacon School in Manhattan, used to volunteer as a teacher’s assistant at Cassidy’s Place, a Manhattan preschool for vulnerable children.

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Rathi, a Queens native who will be a freshman this fall at the Beacon School in Manhattan and who plays tennis at the center year-round, saw it as a chance to get up close and personal with some real live pros.

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The Zionist Organization of America, a pro-Israel group, said it would send a letter to the Beacon School demanding an apology.”

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