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This years High School Quiz Show team on the set of WGBH. Photo courtesy WGBH.

Students advance in WGBH High School Quiz Show

Emily Moss November 25, 2014

by Emily Moss Members of North’s quiz team qualified for the next round of the WGBH High School Quiz Show after emerging as one of the top 16 schools out of 119 to compete in a preliminary round Nov....

Debate team competes at Manchester-Essex

Debate team competes at Manchester-Essex

Emily Moss November 14, 2014

by Emily Moss Four members of North’s debate team competed at Manchester-Essex High School the weekend of Nov. 1, with junior Edward Ding winning the award for first-place speaker, according to senior...

Sophomore Ashley Rodriguez won the Miss Teen Belleza Latina USA competition last month. Photo courtesy Rodriguez.

Sophomore wins Miss Teen Latina USA

Emily Moss November 12, 2014

  by Emily Moss Ever since she was seven years old, Ashley Rodriguez knew she was interested in fashion. Now a sophomore at North, Rodriguez attends weekly modeling classes with professional makeup...

Debate team competes in New York

Debate team competes in New York

Emily Moss October 31, 2014

by Emily Moss Four members of North’s debate team attended a tournament at the Bronx High School of Science in New York Friday, Oct 17 and Saturday, Oct 18, according to senior Bill Shen, a captain of...

Update: Students, administrators not on same page regarding dressing rooms

Update: Students, administrators not on same page regarding dressing rooms

The Newtonite October 10, 2014

by Sophie King UPDATE 10/16: In a meeting Tuesday, administrators affirmed their decision to keep the theater dressing room doors locked during the day. Adams housemaster David Turcotte said that housemasters,...

Panelists for One School One Book

One School One Book: Panelists discuss Asperger's, grief

The Newtonite October 3, 2014

by Jacob Sims Speyer Panelists answered questions and discussed topics relating to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer as part of One School One Book held E-block Thursday in the...

Graphic by Maria Trias.

One School, One Book events to be held Thursday

Emily Moss September 29, 2014

by Emily Moss Discussions related to the school-wide summer reading book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, are set for Thursday in the auditorium and will be organized by grade level, with sophomores...

School committee chair Matt Hills defends board's actions

School committee chair Matt Hills defends board's actions

Max Kozlov September 8, 2014

by Maxwell Kozlov Throughout July, the School Committee met in executive session, meetings closed to the public, to discuss superintendent David Fleishman’s plagiarism after hearing allegations against...

File photo.

Superintendent acknowledges his mistakes

Max Kozlov September 4, 2014

by Maxwell Kozlov Over the course of the summer, news sources revealed that parts of superintendent David Fleishman’s commencement address at this year’s high school graduations closely matched passages...

EDCO teachers Melissa Phair and Joan Siskind support juniors Erick Belozovsky, Noah Blankenship, and Nikolya Sereda, and sophomore Asma Sheikh as they compete at the EDCO Academic Bowl qualifiers.

EDCO academic bowl team reaches quarterfinals at Nationals

The Newtonite May 30, 2014

by Sophie King Giving their strongest performance ever, according to junior Nikolya Serada, the EDCO Academic Bowl team finished in the top eight out of 90 teams at the National Academic Bowl April 5...

Social-emotional health issues focus of PTSO EdEx campaign

Social-emotional health issues focus of PTSO EdEx campaign

The Newtonite May 28, 2014

by Sophie King In light of the tragic events of the past year in Newton, this school’s PTSO officially launched their yearly Educational Excellence Campaign (EdEx) Friday, May 16, with a focus on social-emotional...

No homework days to be piloted next fall

No homework days to be piloted next fall

Emily Moss April 21, 2014

by Emily Moss Between nightly homework, frequent tests and quizzes, and time-consuming extra-curricular activities, high school students often feel as if they never get a break. Sophomores Benjamin Cole,...

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