INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Our students go above and beyond to follow their curiosity, using technology and problem-solving to lead their way. The 2020-2021 school year was unlike any other school year. In the midst of a pandemic, students still pushed themselves to think...
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES THROUGH STEM & ROBOTICS It is incredible to see when STEM, Robotics, and technology come together to serve our larger community. Thanks to the brilliant minds of our students and guidance from our incredible staff, students were able to...
Harumi Rhodes ’97 of the Takacs Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson ELGAR &BEACH PIANO QUINTETS Hyperion Records, May 2020 Pairing pieces by American composer Amy Beach and English master Edward Elgar, this recording, which features violinist Harumi Rhodes ’97, has received...
Katherine L. McKenna ’74 THE PALEONTOLOGIST’S DAUGHTER Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild April, 2020 Katharine L. McKenna is the only daughter of the renowned paleontologist Malcolm Carnegie McKenna and his wife, Priscilla, his co-explorer. Did she inherit their sense of...
Michael Kazin ESB ’66 WAR AGAINST WAR Simon & Schuster January, 2018 The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War. This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of...
Michael Kazin ESB ’66 THE POPULIST PERSUASION Cornell University Press, November 2017 In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run...
AVNI DOSHI ’01 BURNT SUGAR Hamish Hamilton, July 2020 Originally published in India under the title Girl in White Cotton, Avni Doshi’s debut novel, Burnt Sugar, has been short-listed for the Booker Prize, the leading literary award in the English-speaking world. It...
Doesn’t it seem like we can’t talk about anything these days without it getting political? Everything is so fraught. You’re either on our side or their side. You’re either liberal or you’re conservative. Democrat or Republican. Black lives or Blue lives. These...
DR. RICHARD WEISSBOURD, FACULTY DIRECTOR & SENIOR LECTURER Richard Weissbourd is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he co-directs the Human Development and Psychology Program, and the Kennedy School of Government. His work focuses...
In this age of Zoom, it is perhaps the greatest sadness for music teachers to not be able to hear their classes sing as a group. Technical sound lags and a platform geared towards projecting one voice at a time combine to make sing-alongs frustrating and...