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High School Education

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    Nerds Are Healthier

    Pictures of health.​Perhaps it seems intuitive, but that's probably because you, too, were the captain of your high school's debate team, or the leading AV squad member, or that guy with the tape on his glasses who was super-awesome at trigonometry. Science has said it, though, and it must be ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    FAIR-y Tales

    Pictures of health.​Perhaps it seems intuitive, but that's probably because you, too, were the captain of your high school's debate team, or the leading AV squad member, or that guy with the tape on his glasses who was super-awesome at trigonometry. Science has said it, though, and it must be ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2010

    A Brighter Summer Day

    Pictures of health.​Perhaps it seems intuitive, but that's probably because you, too, were the captain of your high school's debate team, or the leading AV squad member, or that guy with the tape on his glasses who was super-awesome at trigonometry. Science has said it, though, and it must be ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    For the Early-College High School Initiative, Success Is More Than Just a High School Diploma

    Pictures of health.​Perhaps it seems intuitive, but that's probably because you, too, were the captain of your high school's debate team, or the leading AV squad member, or that guy with the tape on his glasses who was super-awesome at trigonometry. Science has said it, though, and it must be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Theophilus Burroughs: Hamas-Praising Weapons Dealer, My High School Music Teacher

    ​By Ryan Gellis Most people who heard about Theophilus Burroughs' bust for attempting to sell night-vision goggles, 200,000 counterfeit cigarette stamps, and bulletproof vests to undercover operatives he thought were connected to Middle East terror organizations probably uttered a "WTF?" and ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 1, 2010

    Graduates, Keep Going!

    Invade your local college, young Mexican

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    2010 Commencement Speeches: the Good, the Bad, the Hideously Ugly, and Lisa Kudrow

    ​Graduation is upon us, which means ... commencement speeches will soon commence (indeed, some already have). The question on the minds of everyone who hasn't yet graduated: If you have a shitty speaker, does that mean you'll have a shitty post-graduate life? As someone who can't remember much ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Here Is A Photo of Grizzly Bear's Chris Bear Hugging A Koala

    ​With that kind of wistful, out of focus glaze, this picture could easily double as the greatest high school yearbook photo of all time. (Hopefully he got the wallet-sized ones, too.) Time for all of us to put "embracing a koala bear" on the ol' bucket list, I guess. [Grizzly Bear Galore]

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    No Child's Behind Left: Teacher, Principal Accused of Pervo Behavior

    Queens high school principal Quintin Cedeno got the bum's rush Wednesday amid accusations that he fondled boy students and tried to blow them. Before he was fired, he was principal of the High School of Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture. If the allegations are true, he was indeed ob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2009

    Weekend student vaccination centers open

    ​As part of Mayor Bloomberg's H1N1 flu plan for NYC, the Board of Health has opened vaccination centers this weekend in all five boroughs for middle school and high school students. Elementary school students above four years of age are also eligible for the free shots. Fifty private compani ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 20, 2009

    Do Mexican Girls Sabotage Their Own Studies?

    ​As part of Mayor Bloomberg's H1N1 flu plan for NYC, the Board of Health has opened vaccination centers this weekend in all five boroughs for middle school and high school students. Elementary school students above four years of age are also eligible for the free shots. Fifty private compani ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    WhereTF? Please Help Us Find the F Word on This Shaker Heights Yearbook Cover

    You know, maybe it's because we're so prudish, but we're just not seeing the word "fuck," which is alleged to be cleverly embedded in this Shaker Heights High School Yearbook cover in the hottest internet story of the past 20 or 30 minutes. Mizoz agrees: "I have not only been staring blankly at th ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 20, 2009

    HELLMOUTH HIGH

    Party like it's 1999—and you're a vampire slayer

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    School Yearbooks Succumb to Printing Costs, Exposed Genitals

    Each year at graduation time, we often wonder if anything has changed about the ancient commencement rituals, besides the substitution of one Clinton for another and, of course, sexting. One thing that seems to be passing is the college yearbook: the Chicago Tribune says Purdue and Loyola are among ... More >>

  • Film

    April 15, 2009

    Zac Efron Allowed to Grow Phallus for 17 Again

    Each year at graduation time, we often wonder if anything has changed about the ancient commencement rituals, besides the substitution of one Clinton for another and, of course, sexting. One thing that seems to be passing is the college yearbook: the Chicago Tribune says Purdue and Loyola are among ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2009

    Will Success Spoil Early-College?

    Rising Cuny enrollment means much-lauded campus high schools could get the boot

  • Voice Choices

    February 18, 2009

    This Day and Age

    Rising Cuny enrollment means much-lauded campus high schools could get the boot

  • Film

    March 18, 2008

    Owen Wilson in Drillbit Taylor

    Rising Cuny enrollment means much-lauded campus high schools could get the boot

  • Art

    January 8, 2008
  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007
  • Art

    January 2, 2007

    Hire Education

    Community colleges are bursting at the seams (but not with funding)

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2006

    NYC Schools: Planning for Failure?

    Community colleges are bursting at the seams (but not with funding)

  • News

    September 12, 2006

    Can Bill Gates Rescue Evelyn Cabrera?

    The journey of one high school senior through the small-school experiment of America's most generous philanthropist

  • Theater

    May 23, 2006

    Documenting Tragedy

    Deadly dreams: Do all unhappy high schoolers want to kill their classmates?

  • Books

    May 16, 2006

    Mehta Fiction

    Enjoying the source of the latest plagiarism scandal

  • News

    April 18, 2006

    Learning Why We're Americans

    Schools fail the future when they don't teach individual liberties in the Constitution

  • Art

    April 4, 2006

    Scattered Class

    Software gives peek at admissions odds

  • Film

    March 28, 2006

    'Take the Lead'

    Software gives peek at admissions odds

  • News

    September 27, 2005

    Test Pattern

    Going inside the school system numbers that some parents want to get beyond

  • Film

    August 23, 2005

    'Underclassman'

    Going inside the school system numbers that some parents want to get beyond

  • Art

    July 26, 2005

    Whitewash U.

    A recent court ruling opens the gates for the censorship of college papers

  • News

    January 18, 2005

    Feeling a Draft?

    Poor kids of color fight the Pentagon

  • Books

    November 25, 2003

    Books

    Poor kids of color fight the Pentagon

  • News

    September 16, 2003

    Bush's New Federal Math Leaves Kids Far Behind

    A Texas Hoax May Be the President's Waterloo

  • News

    July 22, 2003

    Girls in Trouble

    'Hooky Party' Puts the Spotlight on Schools' Treatment of Pregnant Teens

  • News

    July 8, 2003

    Struggling to Study

    Mayor Blocks Education Law for the Poor

  • News

    April 8, 2003

    How the Rich Go to War

    They Send the Poor to Fight

  • News

    October 15, 2002

    The Last Candid Man

    A Homophobe Hides Behind His Right to Discriminate

  • News

    June 11, 2002

    Against Rosa's Odds

    On the Road With a Welfare Warrior

  • News

    May 28, 2002

    The Arrangement

    In a Case Where Failure Means Success, 'Separate but Equal' Dance Program Is Averted at La Guardia

  • News

    June 19, 2001

    Sports

    In a Case Where Failure Means Success, 'Separate but Equal' Dance Program Is Averted at La Guardia

  • NYC Life

    March 13, 2001

    Gun Play

    The 15-Year-Old Responsible for the Recent California School Shooting Will Be Tried as an Adult. Justice?

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Nation

    The 15-Year-Old Responsible for the Recent California School Shooting Will Be Tried as an Adult. Justice?

  • NYC Life

    March 6, 2001

    Testing, Testing

    The 15-Year-Old Responsible for the Recent California School Shooting Will Be Tried as an Adult. Justice?

  • News

    April 11, 2000

    Beyond Advanced Placement

    Prep schools rethink a standard

  • Long Island Voice

    October 12, 1999

    A Sporting Chance

    Prep schools rethink a standard

  • News

    May 25, 1999

    Suffer the (White, Middle-Class) Children

    Teen Outcasts Change the Face of Identity Politics

  • News

    May 25, 1999

    Nation

    Teen Outcasts Change the Face of Identity Politics

  • News

    April 27, 1999

    School's Been Blown to Pieces

    Everyday Terror in the Suburbs South of Denver

  • NYC Life

    April 27, 1999

    The Giggling Gunmen

    Littleton, U.S.A.

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