Few girls graduate from Virginia's exclusive Foxcroft School without learning to ride. The headmistress says that the course teaches students sportsmanship and self-discipline.

The Horace Mann School was actually founded by Nicholas Murray Butler as a co-educational experimental and developmental unit of Teachers College, Columbia University.

The government has been urged to help a group of Year 6 pupils in Berkshire who cannot take their SATs tests because their head teacher has been ill.

Berkshire School was founded in 1907 beneath the “dome” of Mt. Everett by Seaver Burton Buck, a Harvard graduate who had taught at Hackley School.