The North Allegheny School District lists diversity as one of its core values, but last week, members and alumni of the Multicultural Student Union (MSU) attended a school board meeting to express a contrasting...

Over the last year, while the nation has shifted significant attention to gun control amidst a wave of school shootings, schools have also been busy taking student safety into their own hands. Since the...

Even after adjusting for inflation, the cost of a four-year college education has doubled in the US over the past 40 years. However, even though the benefits of a college diploma are beginning to be called...

In addition to considering the move to change  school start times as part of its initiative on tackling student stress, North Allegheny is now turning its eye to homework. To what extent, the district...

Second semester is a busy time at North Allegheny. For juniors, you're entering into what's probably the single most demanding stretch of high school. For seniors, you've finished college apps for the...

You walk into a classroom on test day.  It's the second semester.  Students are slouched over, half awake. They haven't done their homework all unit long. Even among the students that aren't predictably...

Each year, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recognizes outstanding student-run literary magazines across the nation.  And VARIATIONS, our very own literary and creative arts magazine...

We like to relax on Saturdays. Sit on the couch, watch TV, go out with the boys, whatever. But on a Saturday last month, 133 middle and high-schoolers from 25 school districts were hard at work, building...

I recently interviewed Tommy McCoy, NA'13, whose name still lives on in many of the classrooms at NASH. He was an extraordinarily accomplished student, and every few months he gains the notice of the faculty...

  I didn't learn that 9 = 23 in math class, but that's exactly what most college admissions offices think of your SAT and ACT writing scores. Every month, thousands of kids pay extra money and...

  As I sat in a piano practice room on CMU's campus, taking a breather between classes, a stray thought wiggled its way into the center of my thoughts. It was a summer day in August, and busy with...

As high school students, we often imagine that the world revolves around us and our school. Thus, as summer vacation commences every year, it's easy to assume the mindset that, with school on pause, the...