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The University of California, San Diego (including the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the San Diego Supercomputer Center) is the center of higher education in La Jolla. National University is also headquartered in La Jolla.
Among the several research institutes near UCSD and in the nearby Torrey Pines Science Park are The Scripps Research Institute, the Burnham Institute (formerly called the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation) and the Salk Institute.
The community's prep schools are La Jolla Country Day School, The Bishop's School, and The Preuss School UCSD. Elementary schools include Integral Elementary School of La Jolla, Delphi Academy, All Hallows Academy, Evans, Torrey Pines Elementary and La Jolla Elementary.
The public high school, La Jolla High School, is in the San Diego City Schools district.
With Athletic Director Jeff Hutzler at the helm and throne of Torrey athletics, sports at La Jolla Country Day School are flourishing.
Heated rivalries between The Bishop's School and the Francis W. Parker School keep games between the three La Jolla area schools intense.
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The Bishop's School is a private college preparatory Episcopalian day school located in La Jolla, California, USA. Originally a boarding school for girls with a short-lived downtown San Diego day school component, upon a merger with the San Miguel School of San Diego, California in 1971, it became co-educational and, in June 1983, the boarding department was closed.
Its main competitors are two other private schools; one in La Jolla, the La Jolla Country Day School and one in San Diego, the Francis W. Parker School. It also has a strong competitive relationship with nearby public La Jolla High School.
Bishop's was founded in 1909 by the Right Reverend Joseph Horsfall Johnson, at that time Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, with gifts of land and money by notable La Jolla, California philanthropists Ellen Browning Scripps and Virginia Scripps, her half-sister. The earliest parts of the campus were designed by architect Irving Gill, responsible for a multitude of buildings in downtown La Jolla, including the nearby Recreation Center and the Women's Club. The current tower building was designed by Carleton Monroe Winslow, a replacement for the original Gill tower.
The school was led from 1921 to 1953 by Headmistress Caroline Cummins, who has an academic hall named after her on the campus. For much of the second half of the 20th century, Bishop's was known for its proficiency in tennis. Upon the arrival of new Headmaster Michael Teitelman in 1983, Bishop's quickly began an effort to transform itself into a thoroughly academic school.
In addition to academic prowess, Bishop's is known throughout Southern California as a water polo power, winning the CIF title in men's water polo in its district in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, and women's water polo in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. The schools athletic teams are known as "The Knights" and "Lady Knights".
Over the past 12 years 3 Bishop's graduates have been named Advanced Placement Scholars for their top performances in the Advanced Placement Program. The class of 2004 had 5 National Merit Scholarship recipients, 10 Merit Finalists and 15 Commended students.
The Advanced Placement Program at Bishop's has also won national recognition for its AP Biology program for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 academic years and recognition for its AP European History program for the 2005-2006 academic year.
Its students regularly matriculate to Ivy League institutions, top liberal arts colleges, and University of California campuses including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD.
Bishop's gained national attention in the 1990s due to its status as the high school of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, who in 1997 embarked on a killing spree across America that culminated in the assassination of the popular Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace.
Other notable alums include Nackey Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union-Leader, Gary Aguirre (stage name Gary Jules) who graduated from Bishops in 1987; Shane Walton an NFL defensive back; Ellen Griffin, New Mexico ranching heiress and ex-wife of journalist Dominick Dunne; Bonnie St. John (who left after her freshman year for a public school), the first African-American woman to win a silver medal at the Paralympics; and professional golfer Kevin Stadler. Other alums include author Gretel Ehrlich who has over 30 books in print, and Dr. Lisa Masterson, a Los Angeles OBGYN and a medical advisor for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Crick Kurgin was a free agent drafted to play for the Chicago Bears, but was injured before the season opener, but who periodically gives motivational speeches to high schools across the country.
The school's headmaster, Michael Teitelman has declared that he will be retiring from his position at the end of the 2008-2009 school year, the centennial year of the Bishop's School. |
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Francis W. Parker School, also known simply as Parker, is an independent day school in San Diego, California, serving students from junior kindergarten through twelfth grade. Parker was founded in 1912 by Clara Sturges Johnson and William Templeton Johnson, themselves recent arrivals to the West Coast.
The Johnsons' nieces had attended the original Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, founded eleven years earlier, and sought to recreate the same progressive education standards at the original institution.
While the institutions are both named after Colonel Parker, the schools themselves differ in their day-to-day operation as well as the structure of institutions such as the student government.
The original Parker campus was established in 1912 at its current location in Mission Hills; a second campus, containing a middle and upper school, was established subsequently in Linda Vista. The upper school campus recently went through an extensive remodeling, to be followed by the middle school. |
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The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD, or sometimes UC San Diego) is a highly selective, research-oriented public university located in La Jolla, a seaside resort community of San Diego, California.
The university, one of ten University of California campuses, was founded in 1960 around the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
UCSD tends to attract students who are interested in science and engineering due to the prominent San Diego biotech sector that developed nearby because of the presence of the university. The university is also near several well-known and respected research centers, such as the Salk Institute, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the Scripps Research Institute.
UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. It is a Public Ivy.
For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. programs are ranked in the top 20 for academic quality in the United States by the National Research Council.
In 2007, the Academic Ranking of World Universities released by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked UCSD 12th in the United States and 14th in the world in terms of quality of scientific research leading towards a Nobel Prize. UCSD has a total of 12 Nobel Laureates affiliated with it. |
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Richard C. Atkinson (born March 1929) served as the president of the University of California from 1995 to 2003. Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the La Jolla Country Day School.
Atkinson started out as a professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he worked with Patrick Suppes on experiments in which they tried to use computers to teach math and reading to young children in Palo Alto elementary schools.
The Education Program for Gifted Youth at Stanford is a descendant of those early experiments.
Eventually, Atkinson transitioned from research to a career in administration, and went on to serve as Director of the National Science Foundation, Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and President of the University of California system.
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