Condensed versions of the school’s two most intimidating textbooks, AP Biology (a whopping 55 chapters) and AP U.S. History (over a thousand pages), may soon accompany the courses’ new, condensed...

Not all the Tupacs, Eminems and Biggies of the world hail from the mean streets of New York, Detroit or Los Angeles. A few Bethesda students spit some game of their own. When they’re not busy...

Senior April Htut loves going to the beach, but she never thought she’d run across snow-covered sand to jump into a freezing cold ocean. Last Friday, Htut joined about twenty students and two...

I participate in school plays, attend sleepovers and religiously watch Glee.  According to author Amy Chua, this means I don’t have a “Chinese mother." But the last time I checked, my ancestors...

The American Scholastic Press Association awarded the yearbook, Saga, and the literary magazine, Eidolon, first-place ratings for 2010. Over 700 publications entered the contest, ASPA chairman Richard...

MCPS may be forced by the Maryland Board of Education to change its teacher evaluation system to one that bases 50 percent of teacher evaluations on student achievement, despite opposition from county...

The speech and debate team won two championships Dec. 17-19 at the Blake School’s John Edie Holiday Debate Tournament in Minneapolis, Minn. Seniors Jesse Freeman and Max Barnhart won the Public...

Science teacher Sherri Gingrich walked into her Whittier Woods classroom Nov. 22 to find the windows cracked, glass strewn across the floor and a huge piece of concrete sitting by a lab table. Her...

Junior Jacob Rasch won a $20,000 scholarship from the 2010 Junior Achievement Essay Competition for his essay, “All I Really Need to Know about Business, I Learned in High School.”   At the...

Some lucky fans didn’t have to venture far to attend the IMAX midnight premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part One.” The sold-out midnight premiere of “Deathly Hallows” at...