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DCPS Eliminates 501(c)(3) Requirement For Service Hours
D.C.’s dramatic reduction of its 30-year-old community service requirement for the classes of 2023, 2024 and 2025 earlier this year —...
Apr 1, 20232 min read
How Does the Walls Admissions Process Work?
Outside the Walls building March 27 / Credits: Meerabela Kempf Hundreds of eighth-grade students came to Walls for admissions interviews...
Apr 1, 20232 min read
Choir and Orchestra Perform at Orlando Music Festival
The SWW music department competed in the OrlandoFest music festival March 15-19.
Apr 1, 20232 min read
“Hugely Inflated”: Are Pandemic-Era Grading Policies Doing More Harm Than Good?
Grade inflation has become prevalent in recent years with DCPS COVID-19 grading policies.
Apr 1, 20236 min read
New Menstrual-Product Dispensers Require Tokens From the Front Office — or Quarters
DCPS installed menstrual-product dispensers in student restrooms over February break.
Apr 1, 20232 min read
Juniors Discuss Preparing for the SAT
On March 1, along with thousands of high school students across the country, juniors at School Without Walls took the SAT. The SAT is...
Mar 31, 20232 min read
New AP Precalculus Course “Makes No Sense,” Teachers and Professors Say
Mr. Koplowitz teaching a precalculus class Feb. 27 / Credits: David Sipos The College Board last year announced a new AP Precalculus...
Mar 1, 20232 min read
PE Classes Return to GW Gym
University COVID Measures Had Prohibited Access Most students at Walls have never had full access to George Washington University’s...
Mar 1, 20232 min read
DCPS Plan to Intervene in Duke Ellington Administration Sparks Student Backlash
Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Burlieth / Credits: Mari Abbate The Duke Ellington School of the Arts (DESA) community has long...
Mar 1, 20233 min read
New High School Set to Open This Fall in Northwest D.C.
MacArthur High School will open in the old GDS lower school building this fall. / Credits: Tess Buckley A long-anticipated new public...
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Orchestra Students Miss Weeks of Classes to Play in Musical
Junior John Wood plays the bass in the musical on Feb. 9 / Credits: Adah Svetlik The clock strikes midnight for orchestra students as...
Mar 1, 20233 min read
More Stringent DCPS Policy Requires Case-by-Case Approval of Field Trips
Credits: Jessie Moss School Without Walls has long prided itself on students’ ability to easily participate in off-campus activities. A...
Mar 1, 20233 min read
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