Bloom & board: black school helps students blossom away from home - Piney Woods Country Life School

Black Issues in Higher Education, August 7, 1997 by B. Denise Hawkins

"That's why we can't stand to lose these schools," Beady says, "because of what it stands for and the potential that it offers as, at least, a partial solution to the academic mess that this country is in."

There's a need for an alternative to the nation's "one size fits all model of educating students," he adds. "Schools like Piney Woods offer that kind of alternative system."