• Ross School
• Official site for the Ross School, founded by Courtney Ross
• April 15, 2008: The Ross School’s Fifth Annual Starlight Ball, a benefit for the Steven J. Ross Scholarship Fund, has been announced for Sat., May 17, 2008, at 6:30 p.m.
• February 9, 2007: The Ross School has decided to sell the 90 acres of land donated to them by Courtney Sale Ross
• July 12, 2006: Courtney Sale Ross, spoke passionately about Ross School before the musical performance of Aretha Franklin.

• Ross Institute
• Official site for the Ross Institute, founded by Courtney Ross
• Suárez-Orozco Is NYU’s First Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Education and Globalization
• Courtney Ross partners with the City of Stockholm to the Ross School’s interdisciplinary curriculum into Tensta Gymnasium. It is the first international school in the Ross Institute network

• Ross Global Academy
• Official site for the Ross Global Academy, which was founded by Courtney Ross
• The Ross Global Academy is a Charter School in Lower Manhattan and modeled after the Ross School founded by Courtney Sale Ross
• Courtney Ross explains how the Ross Global Academy will help more children be better prepared for a world made small yet exceedingly complicated by globalization

Courtney Sale Ross

Courtney Sale Ross has been an innovative leader in the field of education for over 16 years. Courtney Sale Ross recognized that preparing students to meet the challenges of the 21st century requires pioneering models that will transform education. Aided by the research of many educational pioneers and leading thinkers, she set out to expand upon some of the best practices in K-12 education. Today Courtney Sale Ross is the founder of Ross School, Ross Global Academy, and Ross Institute.

The Ross School
Founded in 1991 by Courtney Sale Ross and her late husband, Steven J. Ross, Ross School serves over 560 students in Pre-Nursery through grade 12 on two beautiful campuses in East Hampton and Bridgehampton, New York. Ross School is committed to offering the highest quality education to the broadest range of students and developing, as part of the Ross Institute, a model for 21st century education that can be applied to transform education in public school settings world-wide. The global, integrated curriculum at Ross School combined with on-site learning, peer teaching, mentoring, and technology ensures that students will have the skills and frameworks essential for the 21st century.

The Ross Institute
Founded in 1996, Ross Institute for Advanced Study and Innovation in Education was established to promote understanding of the implications of globalization for pre-collegiate public education. The Institute brings together leading scholars, educators and policy-makers in support of innovative research and practices in global education. Ross Institute also actively fundraises to support Institute projects such as Ross School. The work of the Institute focuses on three major areas: providing professional development for schools who would like to adopt the Ross Model, growing worldwide community of Ross Network Schools committed to 21st century education and catalyzing research in order to improve pedagogical practice.

Ross Global Academy
In 2006, Courtney Sale Ross founded the Ross Global Academy in collaboration with New York University's Steinhardt School of Education and New York City's Board of Education. Ross Global Academy is an innovative public charter school, located in New York City, that serves lower and middle school students. Ross Global Academy provides a holistic education, based on the Ross School model, to enable students to develop a global worldview. RGA aims to serve students from diverse cultural backgrounds with varied learning styles while cultivating in all students an engagement in life-long learning and well-being.

In addition to her work with the Ross School, Ross Institute, and Ross Global Academy, Courtney Sale Ross has also given to major universities across the United States, including Harvard University, New York University, the University of Southern California and Skidmore College. Courtney Sale Ross created the Ross Scholarship Fund for minority women at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She also extends to the People's Republic of China and has endowed a number of museums with contributions related to education and research, including establishing the Courtney and Steven J. Ross Multi-Media and Communications Center at the Shanghai Museum.

Courtney Sale Ross is active in her community and serves on a number of boards, especially those with an emphasis on education, wellness, and international relations. Courtney Sale Ross is a member of the board for the New York University, the Asia Society, the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, the Committee on U.S./China Relations, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America.

Prior to her work in education, Courtney Sale Ross founded a contemporary art gallery in Dallas, Texas. Courtney Sale Ross has also produced a number of films, including 'The Big Picture,' as well as a six-part documentary series on New York School artists called 'Strokes of Genius.' In 1990, Courtney Sale Ross was executive producer for 'Listen Up! The Lives of Quincy Jones'.

Courtney Sale Ross is a graduate of Skidmore College, where she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in 1991. She is the widow of Steven J. Ross, former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner and the mother of Nicole Ross, one of Ross School's first graduates, who is currently studying Biopsychology at NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science.