Kindness, one of the school’s three pillars, could be better reflected in the diversity of ability of its students and the campus’s accessibility accommodations. There are currently...
As a little girl who wanted nothing more than to become a singer, I idolized Beyoncé. She stood above all as a role model. In elementary school, I would walk around my house and classrooms teaching everyone...
For more than half a century, colleges have employed affirmative action to create ethnically and racially diverse classes. However, on June 29, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the use...
When I was 15 years old, I described myself as an ambivert–a person with features of both an introvert and an extrovert—on a getting-to-know-you survey, which baffled my history teacher at the time...
In the wake of a national reckoning on racism prompted by the murder of George Floyd in 2020, a coalition of unnamed Upper School (US) students opened an Instagram account, Masks@ BBN, to expose and address...
Each year a handful of academically-driven students make the conscious choice to move up a level in one or more of their courses. Whether it be moving from Spanish III to AP Spanish
IV or from Chemistry...
“The era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived,” United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, said this past month during a United Nations conference in New York....
“Let your smile change the world, but never let the world change your smile;” this maxim was printed on a sign that sat on the desk of Cassidy Murray '27. Her parents, Dave and Linda Murray P ’24...
At age 17, I’m nearing three years as a songwriter: three years worth of lyrics, hooks, scrapped verses, picking patterns, faint pitchy humming, and unfinished ideas packed into 128GB of iPhone storage....