Reading is in decline in the United States and at Haldane. I read a lot less than I used to. Even four years ago, I would read for hours every day. Now, I’m lucky if I average four a week. I’m not...
This May was Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. AAPI Heritage Month celebrates people from all around Asia and Oceania, spanning many different cultures, all with their different traditions...
Weightlifting has the ability to improve an athlete's potential to perform by increasing longevity, power, and endurance. Coaches, parents, health experts, and the general population have known this for...
A new classroom is being set up that will integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics, or STEAM. This fresh take on education is meant to foster creativity and critical thinking by...
“Haldane is planning to set up 160 security cameras around the high school.” That’s not actually happening, but imagine if it did. Having a camera for every two students seems a little unnecessary,...
A 1974 commission of inquiry into high school journalism found that “Censorship is the fundamental cause of the triviality, innocuousness and uniformity that characterize the high school press.” The...
The culminating courses of Haldane’s advanced English curriculum are the junior and senior year Advanced Placement English classes: AP English Language and Composition, off ered for juniors, and AP English...
Capital punishment is one of the most fiercely contested issues in modern politics. Advocates hail it as a vanguard of public safety, while critics question whether an age that professes to be as enlightened...
Included in a recent defense policy bill passed by Congress and signed into law, young men will be automatically included in the military draft starting this December. The structure of the policy change...
When more than 200 students, roughly a third of Haldane's total population, cut their ninth-period classes on February 6, the atmosphere was charged but uncertain. What the high school students of Haldane...
Student athletes are often told that “championships are won in the weight room," but how are athletes supposed to accomplish this when their weight room is a glorified closet? Haldane’s weight room...
