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The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White
The Student News Site of Walt Whitman High School

The Black and White

Students take different routes to pass HSAs, earn diplomas

By Lucy Chen • October 29, 2010

More and more students are turning to alternative projects in order to meet the state’s HSA graduation requirement. All Maryland students must pass state assessments in algebra, biology, government and...

USA Science and Engineering festival attracts a large audience on the Mall

By Lucy Chen • October 26, 2010

Thousands gathered on the National Mall Oct. 23 and 24 for the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival, where anyone who wanted to could operate a robot, extract DNA from a banana or learn how to...

Helen Simonson kicks off Whitman community book talks

By Lucy Chen • October 6, 2010
Parent Helen Simonson is first speaker for book discussion club that will recognize authors in the Whitman community.

MCPS declines federal Race to the Top grant

By Lucy Chen • September 23, 2010

MCPS declined $12 million from the Department of Education’s Race to the Top grant program to avoid changing its teacher evaluation system, a MCPS public information officer said. Race to the Top...

College Board removes guessing penalty

By Lucy Chen • September 13, 2010

The College Board announced a new grading policy for AP exams that no longer penalizes students for guessing. The old policy deducted a fraction of a point for each incorrect multiple choice answer, but...

Assistant principals Brandi Heckert and Jerome Easton will replace former administrators Jennifer Webster, current Pyle principal, and Kathlyn Carroll, who works at Sherwood High School.

Q&A with new assistant principals

By Lucy Chen • August 30, 2010

The school welcomed two new assistant principals, Jerome Easton and Brandi Heckert, to the administrative team over the summer.Assistant principal Easton, formerly an administrator at Tilden Middle School,...

Senior Jane Kessner recognized for involvement in speech and debate

By Lucy Chen • June 14, 2010
The National Forensics League selected speech and debate team president Jane Kessner as one of six finalists for this year’s Student of the Year.

Whitman graduate wins Fulbright scholarship

By Lucy Chen • June 13, 2010
The Fulbright United States Student Program named Ezra Cohn (’06) a Fulbright scholar for the 2010-2011 academic year last month, and awarded him a fellowship for the next year.

Los Manos Unidas holds camera drive for Columbian refugees

By Lucy Chen • June 4, 2010
While most students take digital cameras for granted, the Los Manos Unidas club is collecting used, functioning cameras through the end of the school year.

Q & A with SMOB Alan Xie

By Lucy Chen • May 31, 2010
He talked with the Black & White about his campaign success and what he thinks are important issues for the upcoming year.

Senior Surbhi Agrawal wins corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship.

By Lucy Chen • May 13, 2010

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation awarded senior Surbhi Agrawal with a corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship. Agrawal is one of nine students in MCPS and 20 corporate-sponsored scholars...

Administrators caught student who caused May 6 fire; motive remains unclear

By Lucy Chen • May 11, 2010
Administrators caught and punished the arsonist who set the fires in the third floor stairwell and Whittier Woods hallway last week.
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