Administration enacts new course selection policy, withholds finalized schedules until August
January 24, 2019
The Staples administration and guidance department have implemented changes to the course selection and scheduling process, requiring that students wait until August of the upcoming school year to view the names of their teachers and the periods they have for each class. In June, s...
Homework volume does not correlate with rigor
Sophie Driscoll ’19
January 16, 2019
At higher levels of certain courses, difficulty of content increases slightly but volume of homework increases dramatically. However, homework quantity does not correlate with academic rigor. Of course, some students override into high-level classes without the necessary foundation for success...
Damico reassures unsettled future Accelerated Science teachers
June 18, 2017
By: Kaya Leitner '19 Accelerated Science is a new course designed to compact three years of curriculum into a two-year science course. Eight sections of the pilot course are anticipated to run for this upcoming school year, and freshman demonstrated great interest in the newly pitched Accelerated Scienc...
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