By now, you at least know some of the story. One month ago, 25-year-old Baltimore, Maryland, native Freddie Gray died due to a spinal cord injury while in police custody. His tragic death reignited what...
SBAC is a test. It’s taken on the computer, and it’s for juniors. But what else do we know about it?
Students know more about quantum mechanics, William Shakespeare’s personal life and the culture...
Just because we’re teenagers, it doesn’t mean we’re unintelligent. But still, we’re just teenagers. Many are smart enough to hand over their car keys before drinking but still irresponsible enough...
In spring of senior year, the question asked by Aunt Laura, your boss, your math teacher, even your garbage man is usually, “Where are you going to college?” Not, “What are you doing after high school?”
This...
You’re up past midnight, gulping down your third can of Red Bull, sick of studying derivatives of inverse functions and the law of diminishing marginal returns.
You walk into class later that day,...
At Staples, it’s easy for us to meet with a teacher if we’re stuck on a math problem. It’s easy for us to get any book we would ever need from the school library. It’s easy for us to be involved...
During Thanksgiving dinner, when your uncle asks you, “Hey kid, did you hear about what happened in the news today?” could you grant him a thoughtful response?
Could you tell him that Marine Sgt....
We want to learn. And we want to be taught. But being smothered by new initiatives can become detrimental to our learning process.
In 2010, Westport 2025 was implemented into our curriculum to strengthen students’...
Remember when you were a little kid, and you weren’t allowed to stay up late and watch the news? It was probably because your parents wanted to shelter you from hearing about all the bad happenings in...
Where do you picture yourself 10 years from now?
Getting that big promotion that you worked so hard for? So hard that you made phone calls on the weekends. So hard that you sent e-mails while you were...
When Yik-Yak shoved its way into Staples, students didn’t know where to turn. We needed someone to tell us how to cope. We needed someone to tell us that it would be okay. We needed help.
That day,...
Pompons, hair bows and catchy cheers have long been synonymous with high school and collegiate sporting events.
Because our cheerleaders have ditched the Grease poodle skirts and bobby socks for sparkly...
In a world where seniors and juniors are in the same AP English class, catastrophe reigns. A junior boy tries to talk about an appeal to ethos, but is drowned out by the unrelenting shrieks coming from...
