The Urban Legend

Beyond the binary: a third pronoun in French and Spanish classes

Dawson Hoe, Staff Writer • April 26, 2022

In recent years, French and Spanish languages have shifted in favor of the inclusion of non-binary pronouns and by extension, people. “If 25 years ago someone had said, ‘my pronoun is they,’ no one...

The note-taking hall of fame

Clementine Daniel, Staff Writer • May 6, 2019

In every Urban classroom there’s at least one student whose notes could be framed in gold and placed on the wall of a museum. From review sheets for a math final to notes from a history class, notes...

Alum Hannah Dreier Reflects on Her Experience Reporting from Venezuela

Sophia Vahanvaty, Editor-in-Chief of Newspaper • February 6, 2018

You know you have won Urban when your high school research paper is assigned reading for Dan Matz’s History of South Asia class. Hannah Dreier’s (‘04) research paper she wrote as an Urban junior...

An annoying sophomore’s take on his “favorite” Urban classes

Kian Nassre, staff writer • May 18, 2017

Computer Science 1 & 2 My name for it: there are 10 types of people in this world, people who get binary and people who don’t. Computer Science is rather hard to explain, so I will define some...

The Urban School’s hidden culture of language learning

Sophia Vahanvaty, Staff Writer • March 28, 2017

At the Urban School, a hidden culture of language learning thrives outside of Urban’s foreign language program. Since over 45 percent of Bay Area residents primarily speak a language other than English...