Global Education
The crash of chaos; how would Newton South react?
By Laura Haime and Daniel Fuchs | Published: May 2010
Imagine if the superintendent, the principal of South, and the two assistant principals were all involved in a fatal accident.
Newton South’s PTSO is looking for more participation from Asian and other minority parents. Julie Sall, Newton South’s PTSO president, suggested this initiative. Sall has helped structure and improve the organization of Newton’s elementary, middle, and high schools.
The volcanic eruption on April 14 has once again proven that despite all of humanity’s advances, we can still be crippled by something most of us can’t pronounce. The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland (pronounced ay-yah-FYAH-lah-yer-kul, by the way) blanketed Europe in ash and caused a near-total airspace lockdown for almost a week, the worst collapse of civil air travel since World War II.
The way I see it, there are three types of Latino immigrants.
One type of Latino immigrant comes to the states illegally to work as much as possible. They make more money than they possibly could in their country of origin and send it back to their families.
The Newton South school profile divides the students’ ethnicity into five different groups.
During my childhood, I did not live in a wealthy neighborhood and did not receive the education that Newton has to offer.
The class is always greener on the other side of the world
By Hannah Maleson and Justin Quinn | Published: April 2010
During the last week in March, Youssouf Tangara, a teacher from Burkina Faso, came to Newton South while he visited his friend and South’s French teacher, Aboudou Karim Dao.
For the past year, both the United States and Russia have been engaging in talks to create a new nuclear arms agreement, named START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).
At a European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday, March 25, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, announced the European Union’s policy regarding a bailout of Greece.
On Iraq’s election day, insurgents killed 36 people to show support for the former Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi.