School Year Abroad online applications for the 2014-2015 school year are due Feb. 17. Director of Financial Aid, SYA Coordinator and French teacher Geoff Bird will interview all applicants. Students must...

For weeks, only one topic has occupied the minds, and unfortunately the mouths, of the senior class. With acceptances, deferrals and rejections streaming in from colleges, chatter about where our peers...

Melvin*, The Brain Out of the two schools he applied to, Melvin* has only heard back from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was deferred. He said it was "kind of disappointing, but definitely...

Stone-Cutters, Harvard-Westlake arts and literary magazine, extended its deadline to Dec. 16 to allow students to submit more literary works. Though more than 130 submissions have been received for Stone-Cutters,...

The workload study committee convened for its first meeting Dec. 12 at the Middle School, where committee members met each other for the first time and went through the surveys and data collected from...

At a school that has a reputation for priding itself on college acceptances, why do we not have pride in each other’s college acceptances? I remember a day last May. My older brother, who attended Sierra...

 All upper school choirs sang in the annual holiday concert, titled "A Winter Fantasia" Friday, Dec. 13 at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica. H-W Jazz Singers, Bel Canto, Wolverine Chorus...

Classes in mythology, surrealism, fly-fishing and robotics will be offered next year, along with two new classes in math and foreign language. The four Independent Studies and Interdisciplinary Research...

In many ways, hatred dominates Roxanne’s* ’14 life. When her parents explained that they were getting a divorce, Roxanne distinctly remembers them emphasizing that they were going to co-parent. But...

Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts will release a new professional growth handbook to all teachers in January. Teachers frequently attend workshops and seminar to improve their skills, Huybrechts said, and...

Reunions for alumni of Harvard School for Boys and Harvard-Westlake will now occur in May in an effort to create a more individual atmosphere for each class, Director of Alumni Giving Greg O’Leary said. The...

School bus operations will remain unaffected by Atlantic Express Transportation Corp.’s declaration of bankruptcy, Bus Service Director Patti Snodgrass said Dec. 4 in an email to all families who use...