The National Latin Exam Brings in the Gold

… freshmen Neeta D’Souza and Alison Reed, received perfect scores. Another student, senior Sarah Kaplan received a copy of the Oxford Classical Dictionary, which is awarded to students who have won gold medals four years in a row.

The test is made up of 40 multiple choice questions ranging from grammar and vocabulary to mythology, customs, derivatives and translations. There are seven levels of difficulty for the exam; however, students are not mandated to take the test in the …

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Charter Schools: Not a Silver Bullet

In recent years, charter schools—schools that receive public funding but are subject to less oversight and far fewer restrictions than traditional public schools—have been treated as a silver bullet, a panacea for all of our nation’s education problems. They’re popular among politicians because they sound like something that can improve our country’s flailing education system. …

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Semifinal Success

They learn to read the minds of plants. They fit entire galaxies into a computer. They even search for (part) of a cure for cancer. They are Stuyvesant’s 2010 Intel semifinalists.

Every year, dozens of Stuyvesant students work for months on a science research paper to submit to the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search (ISTS). And every year, a large number of students proceed to the next …

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ARISTA, an Alternative

For many students, the best kind of academic help is offered by their peers. ARISTA, Stuyvesant’s chapter of the National Honor Society, offers several forms of peer tutoring on a daily basis.

Most students get help from ARISTA through one-on-one tutoring sessions with ARISTA members. Students can e-mail the tutoring committee, which will then pair them up with an ARISTA member who can help …

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United Federation of Teachers: The Teachers’ Union

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) was established in 1960 as the New York City chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, the national teachers’ union. Teachers in the fifties and early sixties were often overworked, underpaid and subject to what some teachers termed the tyrannical power of principals and other supervisory staff.

“We had absolutely no rights. We were afraid to …

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Of Leif Ericson and Lost Moments

Columbus Day has become a topic of much criticism in our politically correct, historically accurate society. We treat it scornfully: a holiday for directionally challenged sailors and small pox infected blankets.

But Columbus is lucky to be discussed at all. For every explorer or historical figure who gets a national holiday, there are hundreds who go unnoticed. Few students even realized that …

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Numbers

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Umbrella

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Sweaters

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Pair of Pants

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Hats

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2008-2009 Stuyvesant Planners

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2009-2010 Stuyvesant Planners

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Socks …

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Stuy Bikers on a Roll

They come 112,000 strong, hailing from every corner of the city. Every morning, while most New Yorkers are cramming themselves into overcrowded subway cars or stuck in rush hour traffic on buses, these commuters are whizzing along the city’s streets and greenways, helmet-clad, bookbags and briefcases strapped to their backs, all of them biking to school and work.

Stuyvesant has its fair …

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Wasted Potential

During the 2008 election there was much discussion of what it means to be an intellectual in today’s society. President Barack Obama, a graduate of Columbia and Harvard and a law professor at University of Chicago, was often derisively referred to as an elitist. According to his opponents, Obama was too well-educated to accurately represent the interests of “real Americans.”

Perhaps …

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