The Urban Legend

Profile: getting the scoop on Mark Salkind, Urban’s head of school

Annakai Geshlider • November 9, 2011

Salkind met an Urban art teacher who encouraged him to apply for a music teacher position. After he didn’t get the job, the school director (before heads, legs or other appendages of school, there...

Focus: Urban’s endowment growing but still behind other Bay Area schools

Eli Dinkelspiel, Staff Writer • October 25, 2011

Last year, nearly 42 percent of applicants to Urban requested financial aid. So it was no surprise when a recent Legend survey found that 34 percent of Urban students — the single-largest group of...

Focus: At a school that talks about everything, economic status difficult to discuss

Jamie Friedman, Staff Writer • October 19, 2011

Urban students converse about race. They discuss gender. They express views on ethnicity. They share thoughts on sexual orientation. There’s only one topic that Urban students shy away from: economic...

Class of 2015 to be the biggest ever, Urban’s admissions director says

Ella McLeod • June 10, 2011

You can’t say times don’t change: the first graduating class at Urban in 1969 had 20 students. But this fall, there are 103 incoming freshman in the class of 2015, making it the largest class in...

History teacher Clarke Weatherspoon to become new freshman-sophomore dean at The Urban School

Hannah Sears • June 10, 2011

Head of School Mark Salkind announced May 31 that Clarke Weatherspoon, an Urban history teacher, will become 9th and 10th grade dean next fall, replacing English teacher and dean Greg Monfils, who will...

Haight Street health food store expands

Kyra Bergsund • June 10, 2011

The Haight Street Market at 1530 Haight St., dubbed “The Health Food Store” by Urban students, recently expanded its selection to offer a bigger selection of foods made to order. Expanding the store...