Explaining the school within a school model

Lucy Hughes and Jay Abdella
March 15, 2017
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A typical WHS student attends six classes per day on an eight day cycle for one-hundred and eighty days of the school year. They go from English to math to history, as it has always traditionally been. However, what if there were another path for students? Next year will mark the beginning of just such...

METCO marks 50th anniversary

Jay Abdella
March 9, 2017
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the METCO program’s existence in Massachusetts. METCO stands for Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity. The program is designed to promote diversity by integrating students from Boston into the suburbs. The program currently includes 34 districts in...

WW’ 17: Students and teachers react to METCO panel

Nandita Subbiah
February 15, 2017
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Freshman DeAndre Balls "[It was] good. It needed to be showed to everyone, what we go through every morning. It was good what they were saying, it was not just one person's life that they had to go through. It is all of us who have to go through it every morning." Senior Coby Sommerfield "I th...

WW ’17: Q&A with slam poets (video)

Abby Stoller, Andrew D'Amico, Natalie Hsu, Kevin Wang, and Jackie Stoller
February 3, 2017
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WSPN caught up with the poets from Tuesday's poetry slam and asked them a few questions about their experiences with slam poetry. When/Where did you start participating in Poetry Slams? Sam Rush: “I first started performing poetry because in high school my teacher showed my class “Def...

Wayland High School’s ranking by the numbers

Matt Karle and Kyle Chen
February 2, 2017
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With the week of midterms behind them, Wayland students have successfully completed the first semester of the 2016-2017 school year and the rigorous exams that marked its completion. Students’ scores on the midterms won’t simply provide insight into how much they’ve learned in their respective...

How to survive midterms and second semester

Naomi Lathan, Matt Karle, Janani Gandhi, Jackie Stoller, Jay Abdella, Wendy Wang, and Meg Trogolo
January 23, 2017
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WSPN reporters offer their best tips on how to survive midterm season and succeed in the second semester of WHS' hardest classes.

Attic Archaeology class studies mystery briefcase

Meg Trogolo
January 23, 2017
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A history teacher receives a mysterious briefcase, salvaged from the middle of a road by a passerby who happened to notice it from atop her bicycle. The briefcase is full of artwork, some of it signed and dated and some of it without so much as a scribble on the back for identification. It sounds...

WHS students to attend Boston Women’s March for America this Saturday

Aimee LaRochelle and Olivia Waldron
January 21, 2017
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On Saturday, Jan. 21, the Boston Women's March for America will be taking place starting in the Boston Commons. According to the event’s official website, the group stands for religious freedom, human rights, climate justice, racial justice, economic justice and reproductive justice. People will be marc...

Q&A with WHS students who attended “Love Trumps Hate” rallies

Aimee LaRochelle
January 19, 2017
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Many Americans were outraged to find that reality TV star Donald Trump had won the 2016 presidential election. Many took a stand against the outcome by attending rallies. Juniors Jen Curran, Savannah Salitsky and Ella Johnson were among them. Here are their stories. Jen Curran Class of 2018 Attended New...

Quiz: How well do you know Coach Parseghian?

Kate Balicki and Abby Stoller
January 5, 2017
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Class of 2017 applies early decision to colleges

Kevin Wang and Charlie Moore
December 23, 2016
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For most seniors, the fall and winter are the last few months of their high school run to tour some schools, finish up some tests and think about their college major. But for an estimated 10% of students, according to guidance counselor Dennis Doherty, autumn is especially cramped as they also send out...