{"id":25169,"date":"2020-03-12T01:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T05:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.ashtonschool.edu.do\/?page_id=25169"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:06:00","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Historia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium width_full\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>For the last twenty six years, the Ashton School has been serving our community as a privately owned, independent Dominican\/International school offering instruction in English at the pre-school, elementary, secondary school levels, as well as Spanish instruction in the subjects required by the National Ministry of Education. The instructional program is student-centered and maintains high academic and personal development expectations, grounded in research-based practices and biblical principles.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashton School was founded in 1998 with fewer than ten teachers and only 35 students in a one-family house, serving students in Kindergarten through third grade. Today the school serves a population of approximately 497 students ranging in grades Pre-Kinder through 12th grade and is accredited by COGNIA and recognized by the National Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic (MINERD).<\/p>\n<p>The school was inspired by the ideals, methods and techniques of the educator Sylvia Ashton Warner who dedicated part of her life to educate children, teaching them English as a second language, while respecting and maintaining their customs and cultural identities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the last twenty six years, the Ashton School has been serving our community as a privately owned, independent Dominican\/International school offering instruction in English at the pre-school, elementary, secondary school levels, as well as Spanish instruction in the subjects required by the National Ministry of Education. The instructional program is student-centered and maintains high...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41786,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-25169","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25169"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41802,"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25169\/revisions\/41802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashtonschool.edu.do\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}