‘Real Food’ Not a Viable Option for Montgomery County Schools

by Bridget Cook ’14 Recently, a parent group called “Real Food for Kids—Montgomery” has been in the news for their aim to nutritionally improve school lunches. The group, while focusing mainly on the nutritional value of the a la carte snacks offered, was created to voice disappointment with school lunch offerings overall and work to change meal choices. On the … Read More

Poor Math Exam Results Confound

by Bridget Cook ’14 As shocking data first reported on April 30 revealed, failure rates in MCPS on math final exams for the first semester were 61 percent for Algebra 1, 62 percent for Geometry, 57 percent for Algebra 2 and 48 percent for Precalculus. After multiple articles appeared on the high failure rate in the Washington Post and The … Read More