#middle-school

#middle-school

This month, Sarah Kaufman will play the witch in the musical Into the Woods at the A.R.T./New York Mezzanine Theater in Midtown Manhattan.It's a dream come true for the performer, who identifies as nonbinary and uses the honorific Mx.EPIC Players, a nonprofit theater company based in Brooklyn that features neurodiverse actors, is producing the musical, which is running June 8-18.

Shouts and expletives rang out at a station in Jamaica, Queens, on Thursday morning as commuters raced to catch connecting trains during the first week of a Long Island Rail Road schedule that has benefited some passengers but upended rush hour for those traveling to Brooklyn.The service changes offer some commuters who used to have to travel to Pennsylvania Station, on the West Side of Manhattan, a shortcut to a new station on the East Side, shaving travel times by as much as 40 minutes, according to transit officials.

Long ago was a time high school basketball teams won with neighborhood kids.Tesoro is bringing back memories of another era.The Titans have players who have known one another since the third grade."We've dreamed about this since middle school," guard Blake Manning said.It was Manning's layup with 15 seconds left Thursday that proved to be the decisive basket in a 50-47 victory over San Gabriel Academy, pushing the No. 2-seeded Titans into the Southern California Division II regional semifinals.

Wendy LuEditing from Brooklyn As a writer and editor in New York City, I am constantly bogged down with deadlines.When I start worrying about my future, my therapist usually says, You're getting ahead of yourself.Here are some ways I tame my anxiety I make a glass of cucumber water It sounds fancy, but it's quite simple and that's the beauty of it.

Against the backdrop of an increasingly professionalized sport, there are still some ultra-trail athletes who are managing to compete at the highest level while also managing the demands of a busy day job.One such athlete is coach, lawyer, and lifelong runner Nicole Bitter.At age 41, Bitter is currently preparing for her eighth Western States 100 start, having qualified with a Golden Ticket from Bandera 100k earlier this year, which is part of the Hoka Golden Ticket Races that doles out entries to top finishers of the series's races.

A small army of backhoes, earthmovers, garbage trucks, pickups and police cars rolled out of Corie Court in Central San Jose Monday afternoon, after crews spent hours working to clear out a major homeless encampment along Coyote Creek.The city-led effort focused on moving out hundreds of homeless people who live near the creek bed.

People on Reddit and members of the BuzzFeed Community have recently been discussing the wild family secrets they uncovered.We received even more comments detailing some truly unbelievable family tea, so we're here to share those stories with you now:

3. "My brother called me five days before my 15th birthday to tell me that my dad, the one on my birth certificate, was not my biological dad.

Many days, my family's home feels as if it were littered with small landmines.My wife and I never know when our 9-year-old son is going to explode if we accidentally kill an insect, have to move Friday pizza-and-movie night to Saturday, or accidentally dismember one of his many Lego creations.After these meltdowns, our son often droops his head and admits that his outbursts make him "feel like a baby."

I am Goldie, a druid with long white hair and the half-human, half-horse body of a centaur.I walk into a lush, green forest with my constant companion, a goat named Penny.As we tread down a winding pathway, we start to smell the rotting stench of decay.Then we see it: the corpses of other animals, decayed beyond belief, spores poking from their bodies.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column.Have a question for Care and Feeding?Dear Care and Feeding, Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group.Dear Some, When my now 14-year-old was a year old, my ex and I decided our relationship wasn't working and divorced.He remarried and moved 4 hours away to another state.

NJ Advance Media | Randy Miller: Right-hander Luis Severino successfully completed a rehab start last week, and is expected to take the mound again with Double-A Somerset tomorrow.If he doesn't have any issues after that outing, he might come off the injured list and start for the Yankees next Sunday in Cincinnati against the Reds.

It was raining the night we made our pact, sealed by the sacred act of a pinky swear.My childhood best friend and I sat on her bedroom floor and promised to be one another's maid of honor.We were 10 years old, and it seemed like nothing could come between us.We couldn't imagine anyone else fulfilling the role.

Giving a recorded TED talk can be a daunting experience at any age.But it's a challenge that eighth-graders at Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley took on with aplomb in December as part of the school's TEDxYouth@EB program.That included Emmanuel, the eighth-grade class president at the French bilingual immersion school.

When Anthony Hrboka of San Pedro was on the basketball court as a 14-year-old freshman in 2020, he stood 5 feet 2 and weighed 92 pounds."When he'd get out there, some would say, 'What's your manager doing out there?' " coach John Bobich said."He was all 92 pounds to the best of his ability."

By Dr. Tim Seelig-
Last month's article was about our pursuit of perfection by embracing AI to write for me.It didn't work out well.The article also included our pursuit of perfection in recording and the trajectory from vinyl through 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, digital downloads, and, finally, streaming.

Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students in the U.S., according to results that show an increasing number of children lack a basic understanding of either subject.The scores were released Wednesday by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.The same assessment reported in October that every single state had seen a decline in math or reading scores amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

These desserts embody the Korean background and French training of the pastry chefs behind them.Together, they are pushing the boundaries of the dessert world.Credit...Rachel Vanni for The New York Times; Joann Pai for The New York Times; Jun Michael Park for The New York Times; Aya Brackett for The New York Times; Peter Flude for The New York Times At the Park Hyatt hotel in Paris, Narae Kim combines the Nashi pear she grew up eating in Dangjin, South Korea, and the Williams pear often used in eau de vie into an eye-catching dessert: a fan of Williams wedges, some marinated in jasmine tea and others cooked in bergamot oil, alongside quenelles of pear-and-cassava sorbet, all topped with tiny orbs of Nashi pear liqueur.

While covering a deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, a local reporter said that she is also a survivor of a school shooting.On March 27, a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three children and three staff members at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville for children in preschool through 6th grade.

(CNN)Parents across the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD), located in a Dallas, Texas, suburb, are reeling following a string fentanyl overdoses by nine students who attend schools in the district.The students, who range in age from 13 to 17 and are not identified by name in court documents, overdosed between September 18, 2022 and February 1, 2023.

Pentucket Regional Middle-High School in West Newbury was evacuated Monday morning after students reported smelling an unusual odor.The reports came in around 10 a.m., and officials have yet to determine the cause, "so following procedures, a regional hazardous materials unit has been called to investigate," district spokesman John Guilfoil shared on Twitter.

JARRELL, Texas After a few school shooting threats, Jarrell police, the FBI, Texas DPS, Williamson County and other agencies are working to find out who posted threats on social media.The pickup line at Jarrell Middle School was nearly empty on Monday following a series of threats over the weekend.

By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer
A lawsuit challenging the Palo Alto Unified School District's practices for placing ninth graders in math classes has sparked a debate about how fast students should be allowed to advance, and what that does to their mental health.On one side, there's a group who thinks the district should be more focused on mental health and helping students who are struggling than students who are bored.

For 18-year-old Grace Holmes, there's one thing that speaks to the population explosion in her hometown more than anything else: the stairwells at her high school in Dublin."I'm stepping, then I'm pausing, then I'm waiting five seconds, then I'm stepping again," said Holmes, a senior at Dublin High.

For 18-year-old Grace Holmes, there's one thing that speaks to the population explosion in her hometown more than anything else: the stairwells at her high school in Dublin.I'm stepping, then I'm pausing, then I'm waiting five seconds, then I'm stepping again, said Holmes, a senior at Dublin High.It's just crazy to see that many kids.

As a ninth-grader, I know firsthand the burden of carrying a heavy backpack.Mine weighs close to 20 pounds, the same weight as a large watermelon.Upon returning to in-person classes after COVID-19 shutdowns, I noticed that the skin under my backpack straps was red and my back ached.I was overwhelmed by the number of textbooks, notebooks and supplies my teachers required me to carry.

Diplo has "got a b*** job from a guy" before but doesn't think it is "that gay".The 'Lean On' producer - who has previously dated the likes of Katy Perry and M.I.A. - admitted he has received oral sex from a man in the past but doesn't want to "define" himself as homosexual, though he could potentially see himself with a male "life-partner".

The Merrillville High School football team and school community are mourning the shooting death over the weekend of Johnathan Brown, 18, who was remembered for his smile and as a valued member of the team.Brown, who had a listed address in Aurora, Illinois, died after a shooting Friday night near a Buffalo Wild Wings in Homewood, Illinois, according to a release from the police department there.

When Ava Max dropped herdanceabledebut album, Heaven & Hell,in 2020, songs like "Sweet but Psycho" and "Kings & Queens" solidified her as an empowering figure of self-acceptance for Gen Z outsiders."My first album was personal, but it was more about my career - how I felt being a woman in the industry trying to make it and how I felt like I was never going to make it," Max, 29, tells Bustle.

LOCKHART, Texas Nearly one week after the San Marcos CISD community was rocked by tragedy, students in a different district stepped up to offer their support by writing letters.On Feb. 24, an 11-year-old girl died at Goodnight Middle School in San Marcos after she was accidentally hit by a car in the drop-off lane, according to the San Marcos Police Department.