We all want to be the one who scores the winning touchdown at the rivalry football game, sending the stands into an exuberant uproar after a brutal season filled with blood, sweat, and tears. Champion. We all want to be the one who glides into Homecoming with a handsome man on her arm, ringlet curls […]

It’s August 2nd, 1:11 am. My school routine will not commence for another 38 days, 6 hours and 54 minutes; however, I’m already restless, in anticipation of my upcoming final specialized high school year. I attend one of the most competitive specialized high schools, not just in New York City, but in the entire nation. […]

It would be a shame to live in a country where students are encouraged to attend college and follow their dreams, yet there was a major road block standing in in the way of many of their dreams. Unfortunately, the United States of America has decided to set ridiculously high standards for every student wishing […]

Bullying is a growing epidemic in today’s society that is being overlooked much too often. No one can fully comprehend the severity of it until they have been through it personally. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it” -Martin Luther King- Look around, I […]

This paragraph is the introduction because this is a formal piece of writing, and in formal pieces of writing, the first paragraph is always the introduction. Standard protocol calls for a hard-hitting question, or bold statement, or existential quote, to begin such paragraphs to smother the reader’s attention in a net of intellectual stimulation. The […]

The editor of New York Times, In my social studies class, we have been doing a project on weather we should give the native americans land or money. I think that more americans should know about the subject before making their decision. The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Indian nations […]

I am in eighth grade and I have learned many things in my three years of middle school.1) Be yourself and don’t care what people think about you. If you always worry about what others think of you then you will never have fun and you won’t be able to be confident in yourself. Also […]

“Music can change the world because music can change people. “-Bono “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”-Thomas Merton Those quotes above stuck out to me when I decided to write this article because both went with my theme. Music and art are ways for kids and teens to […]

“Should school mandatory social justice class be served” Social justice class in schools should it be applied that’s the argument of the day. For most who don’t know social justice generally applies to the idea of creating a society or institution. That is mostly based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that students understand […]

Laura GreenidgeEducator of the yearWe go to school twelve plus years in our lifetime. In elementary school we only have one teacher, nut after that we see up to eight in a day. We go through teachers like socks, but we always have our favorite.Going into my first of middle school I met Mr. Hampton, […]

SHORT DAYS: if we have shorter days of school well have more time to study and do home work and we will be less stressed LONG DAYS: we should have long breaks between classes and we should have at least 1 hr before school for study hall and we’ll be more stressed and be tired […]

Among the country, revolutionary changes are being made to how education functions. On all levels, the more traditional methods of completing the most simple of tasks are being challenged. The fact that changes are being made for the sake of change cannot be dismissed. Administrators spread across the country need to understand the consequences resulting […]

An open letter to the students who pretend their pens are drumsticks and tap their desks with them as if it’s a drum.It’s not. Imagine my discomfort of sitting in a hot classroom with no air conditioning and struggling to stay focused when all of a sudden, you hear this loud, obnoxious sound from the […]

Obama has a program called ‘Race to the Top’ which includes The Early Learning Challenge. This is a two-year-old school-reform grant competition. An addition to this program proposed by Andrew Cuomo, a governor from New York, is that “All public school kindergartners sit for ‘entry assessments’ starting in the 2014-15 school year,” says Dana Goldstein […]

I have no idea. I couldn’t tell you, show you, but I am going to attempt to figure it out in so many words and see how far I get. Maybe this will just be a start to get the brain going for what’s to hopefully come. To start, this is not a race or […]

Whoever came up with the cliche, “High school will be the best four years of your life” either lived in a cave during those significant four years of life, or simply did not experience Honors courses. Everyone who’s academically inclined in high school can attest to the fact that what with all the studying, note-taking, […]

Have you ever seen those problems that say show your work? Well of course you have it’s a common concept that teachers came up with and it works well for showing where a student is at on a certain topic. But sometimes you get those questions that are plain dumb such as, “please answer the […]

I Believe. I believe in the power of the pursuit of knowledge. I have been an overachiever for as long as I can remember. During my schooling I have been mocked for my desire to learn more about the things that are unfamiliar to me. Whether it was my sister mimicking my frequent questions addressed […]

“Good Morning Childrens!” as I walked into my very first government and economics class. “Here we go again I thought another “exciting” class and who taught him how to speak!!” As he began to speak, I slowly forgot my first thoughts and began to realize that he was not a normal teacher. He was a […]

When asked how I feel about school uniforms I would have to say that I actually like them. I think wearing uniforms is a great idea because there is less bullying and teasing, it helps keep you focused on school work, and its more convenient for parents and teachers.The first reason school uniforms are great […]

We all aware of the common ideology of college being the only road to a life worth any meaning. Nowadays it seems many employers will scratch your name off the list at the simple mention of the absence of a college degree. Howhas the American Educational system decayed into this one idea of the perfect […]

Have you ever played that game Telephone? You know, the one where there’s a line of like, I don’t know, maybe twenty people. Then one person says something completely ridiculous and passes it on to the next person, and then they pass it on to the next until it finally reaches the last person in […]

Sugar spice and everything nice—that’s what comes to mind of Mrs. Carnell. I’ve never met a teacher as sweet and caring as she is.I had the pleasure of being in her Advanced Composition class this past year. I have not been known for my writing skills, but she encouraged me to just let my mind […]

Begin Young!Beginning foreign language instruction at a young age, such as in kindergarten, has many cognitive benefits for when children grow up and work with people of different cultures. A second language should be taught starting as young as possible because the younger a child is, the more they can absorb in their brains and […]

I guess you could call it a sort of targeted ignorance. I blot out unnecessary disturbances, and I transform objects that need transforming. I edit out all of the mistakes, and revise all that is around me. It’s a perfect world, customized just for me. It allows a freedom, from the ball-and-chain effect of the […]

“To be or not to be” has always been the question. From before Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, people have been wondering whether or to do or not to do. Now I have a question before me which High School teachers have been wondering since they began teaching; “Should Shakespeare stay in the curriculum?” To say that […]

An issue that matters to me is the replacement of traditional education by technology. I have learned in school through both writing on paper and through typing on a computer, and I learn much more when my work is handwritten. Some would say that this information may not be accurate for all cases, but the […]

The ACT, American College Testing, is a test that most high school juniors and seniors fear for the last two years of high school. Well, at least I feared it. The ACT is a standardized test meant to measure your performance in a variety of subjects such as English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and a writing […]

Every high school student knows the feeling. After a long, hard day at school you get home and you start your long hours of homework. Some kids are lucky and they can start their homework right when they get home from school. For others they go right from school to practice and get home at […]

Being hungry in class is a recurring problem for students all over the world. When students are at school and trying to focus on the lesson they are learning, they often get distracted and lose interest because their stomach is rumbling, and they are counting the clock’s seconds until lunch time. It is hard to […]