Kate Vidano '21 covers students' efforts to make GDS eco-friendly.
Sadie Foer '23 reports on GDS' rising stress.
Ethan Wolin '23 reports on GDS's closure due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Over the past few years, youth activism has taken the United States by storm. Politically engaged teenagers have organized national marches, worked on campaigns and advocated for policy. Building on the legacies of the students who protested American ties to the South African Apartheid government, took to the streets to oppose the Vietnam War and sat at segregated lunch counters, youth today are again challenging the older generation’s status quo through their activism. But what is activism? Which activists are highlighted by our society, and which are ignored? In recent years, it has often been white youth—activists like Greta Thunberg
Nick Penniman '22 covers the email chain that has sparked controversy throughout the GDS community.
Ethan Wolin '23 covers the friendship between English teacher John Burghardt and Associate Head of School Kevin Barr ahead of Barr's retirement.
Walking out of the Tenleytown metro station, it’s almost impossible not to notice advertisements with an important announcement. Half advise you to Say Hello to you new Grab and Go. The other half are informative: Tenleytown Target is now Open. Coming out of the station, it’s easy to see why. Exiting on the west side of the street, the new Target immediately jumps out at you. To enter the store, you don’t even have to step out onto the sidewalk; a prospective shopper only has to get off the escalators and keep walking forward to go in the main entrance
Kate Vidano '21 reports on Instagram's experiment of removing likes from the app.
Lena Levey '21 reports on how students reacted to the House impeachment inquiry.
Sprinter Ziyah Holman commits to run at the University of Michigan.
Nearly one in five GDS students have special accommodations on tests, including extra time or sitting in separate rooms, a rate substantially higher than public schools in Washington, where fewer than two percent of students receive testing accommodations. In the wake of the recent college admissions scandal, testing accommodations have come under scrutiny amid allegations that schools in affluent areas are more likely to take advantage of such accommodations and that wealthy families have turned to paying for expensive assessments to gain an advantage for their children in school and on standardized tests. The federal section 504 program, created under
The women’s varsity soccer team secured their spot as regular season ISL upper division champions this afternoon.