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For GLTHS Students, All the World’s a Stage
Superintendent-Director Jill Davis is pleased to share that Greater Lowell Technical High School students in the construction cluster recently completed construction on a new multipurpose stage for the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell. In December 2023, the construction cluster was tasked with building a multipurpose indoor stage at...
Chelmsford Wears 2024 Knowledge Bowl Crown
CHELMSFORD – For the second year in a row, McCarthy Middle School’s Knowledge Bowl team hoisted the championship trophy during the Kendall M. Wallace Greater Lowell Regional Knowledge Bowl Tournament on May 6-7. This year, six districts – Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Lowell, Tewksbury and Tyngsboro – competed in the tournament, each sending one 10-member team of students in grades 5-8 to the preliminaries on May 6.
In Boston, schools test ways to target student absences with sports, raffles and Saturday schedules
At New Mission High in Hyde Park, many students jump into the school day by first hitting the gymnasium. Shawn Polk, the school's health and physical education teacher, typically opens the gym doors around 7 a.m., cranking up catchy pop music over a loudspeaker as kids trickle inside to play basketball or volleyball.
AHS senior semifinalist for National Merit Scholarship
The National Merit Scholarship Corp., which seeks to recognize academically talented students throughout the United States, has announced semifinalists for the 2024 scholarship program. Hundreds of students throughout Massachusetts qualified, and Arlington High School senior Ethan Phan is among them. "I am honored to [be in the running to] win...
Keller At Large: After campus protests, Harvard opts for policy of neutrality
BOSTON - A university campus is "a place for research and debate. It is not a place for proclamation," says Harvard alumnus and frequent critic, Harvey Silverglate, a local lawyer and civil libertarian. "If you want proclamation, go to the Vatican." That's why, after months of political turmoil that helped bring down Harvard's president and drew the ire of students, alumni, faculty and Congress, Silverglate applauds the university's decision to stop weighing in as an institution on current affairs.What is institutional neutrality? Adopting a policy of "institutional neutrality" - a practice that started in the mid-1960s at the University of...
Classroom Quarterback – Cheryl Pollard
(Each month, Wellpoint, Lowell Public Schools and InsideLowell honor a Lowell teacher for their exemplary work in the classroom and for going the extra mile to serve as a positive influence in the lives of their students) It is one of the hottest days of the school year, but the...
6 Boston students vying for $10K scholarship all go home happy, thanks to anonymous benefactor
The benefactor donated an additional $50,000 to Boston Public Schools, allowing each finalist to take home a $10,000 scholarship. Usually, six students enter, and one will win. But that’s not the case for these six Boston students from different high schools vying for a $10,000 scholastic scholarship. On Wednesday...
Chelmsford High Recognizes Future Teachers
CHELMSFORD – Chelmsford High School seniors who are planning to go into the field of teaching were recognized during a Future Teachers Signing Day ceremony on Thursday, May 23. In total, a dozen graduating seniors plan to make the foray into education; five were present for the ceremony. CHS...
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