Urban students wrangle raptors at San Francisco’s Randall Museum
Annakai Geshlider
June 10, 2011
Simone Enderlin (’13) and Helena Kleiner (’13) do not play soccer after school or go home to do math problems or surf Facebook. Instead, they hold raptors. The two Urban School sophomores volunteer at the Randall Museum, a free museum located in Corona Heights in San Francisco that educates kids... Read more »
Urban School media literacy class collaborates with cutting edge local radio station
Jason Cinti, Staff writer
May 5, 2011
Urban’s media literacy class, led by art teacher Kelli Yon, took a field trip on April 27 to San Francisco-based Pirate Cat Radio and did live radio broadcasts. Pirate Cat Radio, channel 87.9 on the FM dial, is located on 21st Street in San Francisco, is a community radio station that is completely... Read more »
High schools new breeding ground for stem cell studies
Zoe Pleasure
April 15, 2011
With the recent opening of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in February, Urban students are going behind the headlines to study stem cells. The Urban science department incorporated a unit about stem cells into the sophomore Science 2A class two years ago. According to science teacher... Read more »
Urban’s Aim High program changes middle school lives
Hannah Sears, Staff writer
April 15, 2011
It’s Thursday morning in an 8th grade history class at St. Cecilia Middle School. As the teacher discusses a Holocaust survivor who visited the class the day before, four kids giggle quietly. They aren’t laughing at the subject matter, but they are clearly not paying attention either. Four years... Read more »
From Gilgamesh to Gatsby: the Legend’s guide to further reading
Adrienne von Schulthess, Staff Writer
April 15, 2011
It is a classic Urban School experience: freshman and sophomore year, each student must read certain books for English class. Ultimately not everyone will enjoy every one of these books. Yet some of the books open up worlds that students would never have found on their own. Urban’s Library Leaders... Read more »
Is organ printing the future of regenerative medicine?
Hannah Gorman, Staff writer
April 7, 2011
Could a laser printer save the lives of people waiting for organ donations? As of 2008, there were 105,567 patients waiting for an organ donation, a nearly sixfold increase from 1998, according to the Department of Health and Human Services Web site at organdonor.gov. Meanwhile, the number of donors... Read more »
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