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The School Without Walls is consistently recognized as the top high school in Washington DC due to the high academic performance of the students who attend. This selection of students comes from the application process, which for years has included an entrance exam as well as an interview. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and in addition to diversifying the school, Walls has eliminated its entrance exam for the 2021-2022 school year applicants. One of the goals of remo

On October 3, 2021 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) began to publish a series of leaked documents known as the “Pandora Papers.” The papers, found and reviewed by 14 sources and over 600 journalists from 117 countries, contain 11.9 million documents that amount to about 2.9 Terabytes of data. For perspective, that’s about 2969.6 Gigabytes - or nearly 24 full ELi Tablets worth of storage (they can contain 128GB each). The information released in

January 6th was a tragedy for the DC community, the United States, and the world. Five lives were lost and over one hundred police officers were injured. For fear of President Joe Biden's safety at his inauguration later in the month, secure fencing was erected. If you lived on Capitol Hill, the only way you could get past the Capitol would be on Interstate 695 or around Union Station. The city felt like a war zone with hundreds of National Guardsmen stationed around the city

After almost 18 months of online learning, all School Without Walls students went back to full-time in-person school on Aug. 31. Out of the entire student population, only the current seniors have been in the school building for a full year prior to the pandemic. One month later, what are students’ reactions to in-person school? To find out, I spoke to one student from each grade and a student in the GW early college program. There was near unanimity in their responses. Onlin