Sarah Rose (born 1974) is an author and journalist known for D-Day Girls and For All the Tea in China .
25-775: Rose was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools , Harvard College , and the University of Chicago . She lives in New York. Rose's newest book, D-Day Girls , was published in April 2019 and debuted at #11 on the Indie Bestseller List and #6 on the Washington Post Paperback Bestseller List. It tells the story of women who were infiltrated into France ahead of D-Day to arm and train
50-616: A " Matthew Headrick Day" and the US House made a proclamation when then-student Headrick appeared on talk shows including Today after winning the Westinghouse . In response to the award, the Chicago Tribune wrote: "this ... is a ... school where being on the math team ... can actually enhance one's social status." The Finance Club was founded in 2015 with more than $ 100,000 of donated funds to invest. The 2019 boys soccer team won
75-628: A humor column about dating for Saturday Evening Post and Men's Fitness . She was awarded the North American Travel Journalists Association Grand Prize in Writing and a Lowell Thomas Award . She was also a grant winner from New York Foundation for the Arts . University of Chicago Laboratory Schools The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (also known as Lab, Lab Schools, or U-High , abbreviated UCLS )
100-623: Is 8:1. According to the 2021 Lab Student Wellness Survey, 48% of girls and 25% of boys, for a total of 37% of students, identify as part of the LGBTQ community. In 2007 The Wall Street Journal ranked the high school fourth in the nation for its record of sending graduates to 8 elite colleges including its parent university, University of Chicago. U-High offers more than 150 different classes. All are college preparatory in nature and there are more than 30 Advanced Placement or Advanced Topic courses. High school students may also qualify to take classes at
125-565: Is a private , co-educational , day Pre-school and K-12 school in Chicago , Illinois . It is affiliated with the University of Chicago . Almost half of the students have a parent who is on the faculty or staff of the university . The Laboratory Schools were founded by American educator John Dewey in 1896 in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago . Calvin Brainerd Cady was director of
150-621: Is home to approximately 625 children in nursery through second grade. The building is named for Earl Shapiro, who graduated from Lab in 1956. The school has over 2,160 students in total from Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 12. Today the school is divided into a Nursery School (Pre-K and Kindergarten), Primary School (grades 1 and 2), Lower School (grades 3 through 5), Middle School (grades 6 through 8), and High School (grades 9 through 12). Many children begin in nursery school and continue through their high school graduation, and 75% of applications are for nursery school or 9th grade. The student/teacher ratio
175-469: Is part of] a new library and a more robust approach to analyzing women’s essential role in war.” The Washington Post said, “Equal parts espionage-romance thriller and historical narrative, D-Day Girls traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France. . . . While chronicling the James Bond -worthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures
200-573: The Associated Press said it was "a story that should appeal to readers who want to be transported on a historic journey laced with suspense, science, and adventure." The book received awards from BBC Radio (as "Book of the Week"), Booklist , Strategy+Business , AudioFile , and elsewhere. Huw Bowen, Professor for history at Swansea University, criticized the book due to its "basic errors adding to serial misconception and misunderstanding" in his review for
225-484: The French resistance by the secret British agency, SOE . Author Erik Larson called it, "Gripping...Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery) —and all of it true." Foreign Policy said, “ D-Day Girls , written with novelistic detail, weaves together five women’s narratives using historical research from contemporary periodicals, archives, and interview records. . . [ D-Day Girls
250-786: The Pulitzer Center . The competition honors works in more than two dozen categories, including print, digital, audio, video and photography. Winners are announced at the SATW (Society of America Travel Writers) annual convention and receive cash prizes. The competition attracts entries from, and is covered by, major media, including the New York Times , Chicago Tribune , Los Angeles Times , Orange County Register , Washington Post , Cleveland Plain Dealer , Oregonian , Outside magazine , and Globe and Mail. The Grand Award (Travel Journalist of
275-542: The Guardian. Jonathan Spence , noted China scholar at Yale University disagreed, "In this lively account of the adventures (and misadventures) that lay behind Robert Fortune's bold acquisition of Chinese tea seedlings for transplanting in British India, Sarah Rose demonstrates in engaging detail how botany and empire-building went hand in hand. [1] " In 2010–2011 Rose co-starred, along with her close friend Joel Derfner , on
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#1732854759926300-537: The IHSA 1A state championship. The 2019 girls tennis team won the IHSA 1A state championship, becoming the first U-High girls team to win a state championship. The 2021 girls tennis team was also 1A state champion, and the team won the 1A state championship again in 2023. The boys tennis team won the 1A state championship in 2018 and again in 2024, making the 2023-24 school year the first time in school history that both girls and boys tennis teams won state championships in
325-720: The United States. The Debate Team has won numerous national circuit tournaments. Organized by the Office of Alumni Relations Development, members of the student body at U-High are nominated by faculty to serve in the Maroon Key Society. The Maroon Key Society serve as ambassadors for the school, and they help provide tours to visiting alumni, potential students, and other guests to the school. The high school's extracurricular activities occasionally make national and international news. For example, in 1990 then-Governor Thompson declared
350-509: The University of Chicago at no extra charge, and about 20 do so each year. The average composite ACT score is 31.5. The school maintains four separate libraries which collectively hold over 110,000 volumes. High school students may choose from over 40 different clubs and activities. The high school math, science, and Model UN teams are regular contenders for – and winners of – state titles. The school's newspaper/website, The U-High Midway, and
375-450: The Year) is given to an editor or writer whose work excels in at least five of the awards categories. In 1985 (the first year awards were given), there were 15 categories. In the intervening years, new categories, including blogging, websites, video, and multi-media, were added to reflect the changing journalism landscape. For the awards announced in 2021, a new category travel for health and safety
400-540: The broken landscape of war.” Rose's first book, For All the Tea in China , was published in 2009, and tells the story of Robert Fortune , the nineteenth-century Scottish botanist who, in stealing tea plants and seeds from Qing China , committed "the greatest act of industrial espionage in history." Guy Raz , of National Public Radio 's All Things Considered , called it "a wonderful combination of scholarship and storytelling," and
425-431: The celebrated 20th century travel journalist and broadcaster. It is open to journalists from around the world and is considered one of the premier professional awards programs for travel journalists and communicators. Entrants (in the early 2020s, more than 1200 annually) include major media outlets, staff writers and editors, freelancers, book authors, digital communicators, and journalism fellows from such institutions as
450-566: The department in 1894, wanted to test certain ideas of his. Dewey acknowledges in his book How We Think (1910) the contribution made by his wife Alice Dewey to the development of the school in its early years. The Laboratory Schools consists of two interrelated campuses. The Historic Campus, located at 1362 East 59th Street, fills two full city blocks and is known for its Modern Gothic style architecture. It houses grades 3–12 (about 1,200 students) in five connected buildings: Blaine Hall (built in 1903), Belfield Towers (1904), Judd Hall (1931),
475-496: The high school (built in 1960), the middle school (1993), and Gordon Parks Arts Hall (2015) which has 100 classrooms. Two connected gymnasiums also sit on this campus, Sunny Gym (built in 1929) and Kovler Gymnasium (built in 2000) and students have access to both Scammon Garden and Jackman Field. In September 2013, Lab opened Earl Shapiro Hall on its new Early Childhood Campus located at 5800 S. Stony Island Avenue . This new building, designed by Valerio Dewalt Train and FGM Architects,
500-557: The journalism faculty of an accredited U.S. university, each of which takes on the project for five or six years. Previous judges have included members of the faculties of the University of Missouri School of Journalism , the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism , and the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications . In 2015, judging returned to
525-454: The music department under Dewey. The school began as a progressive educational institution that goes from nursery school through 12th grade. The school was an attempt to create a unified school system from the kindergarten to university. Managed by the university's Department of Philosophy, Psychology, and Education, it served as a laboratory to test hypotheses and build on the knowledge about education because John Dewey, who became head of
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#1732854759926550-845: The reality television series Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys , which follows the lives of four women in New York City and their gay male best friends. The show debuted on the Sundance Channel in December 2010. Rose was The Wall Street Journal 's Dynasties columnist, writing a bi-weekly news column covering New York's billionaire real estate families. Her features have appeared in major newspapers and magazines such as The Washington Post , Outside , Chicago Sun-Times , Toronto Globe and Mail , The Economist , Men's Journal , Bon Appetit , National Geographic Traveler , Travel+Leisure , Departures , The New York Post and many others. Rose also wrote
575-422: The same academic year. Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards The Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards are administered by the U.S.-based Society of American Travel Writers Foundation (SATW Foundation), a nonprofit organization founded in the early 1980s to recognize excellence in travel journalism. The first awards were given in 1985 for work done in 1984. The competition is named after Lowell Thomas ,
600-411: The yearbook, U-Highlights, regularly win state and national awards, as does its arts magazine, Renaissance . Other popular activities include theater, identity and affinity clubs, Student Council, policy debate, and Model UN. The Model UN team is consistently ranked among the top in the nation, and is world-renowned for its competitive excellence. In 2011, it was ranked the #2 High School Model UN team in
625-771: Was added, and the list had expanded to 27 categories: Grand Award, Travel Health/Safety Coverage, Newspaper Travel Coverage, Travel Magazines, Travel Coverage in General Magazines, U.S./Canada Travel, Foreign Travel, Photo Illustration of Travel, Special Packages/Series, Cruise Travel, Adventure Travel, Travel News/Investigative Reporting, Service-Oriented Consumer Work, Environmental and Sustainable Tourism, Cultural Tourism, Personal Comment, Special-Purpose Travel, Short Work on Travel, Culinary-Related Travel, Travel Book, Guidebook, Travel Journalism Websites, Travel Audio, Travel Audio (Podcasts and Guides), Travel Video, Travel Blogs, Multimedia Single Work. Entries are judged by members of
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