By Allie Pino ’15 Responding to declining same-store sales, falling stock prices and a shrinking base of younger customers, McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast-food chain, will announce plans to vastly expand its “Create Your Taste” test platform. “Create Your Taste” lets customers skip the counter and head to an in-store tablet-like kiosk where they can customize everything about their burger, … Read More
By Emma Hierholzer ’15 Common Core—two words that often drag along a slew of thoughts, spoken in voices of greatly varying opinions. Stuck between its supporters and opponents, it seems that the shiny new policy—the Phoenix of President George W. Bush’s No-Child-Left-Behind ashes—has seen better days. In light of this recent backlash against the educational reform, a rarity has occurred … Read More
By Brian Hughes ‘15 and Betselot Wondimu ‘15 photo by Jack Armstrong ’15 On Tuesday, Superintendent Joshua Starr visited Sherwood as one of the middle and high schools in a series of town hall meetings. Students who attended the town hall asked a myriad of questions concerning academic programs and MCPS’s distribution of funds. “The more we can engage them in … Read More
By Catherine Jou ‘15 Throughout the year the Student Government Association works with the school coordinating and attending activities, promoting school spirit and connecting to the community. Many of these functions are unknown to students or go unnoticed. Representing Student Interests Once a month the Montgomery County Regional Student Government Association holds a countywide General Assembly Meeting which hosts a … Read More
By Ketki Chauhan ‘16 Average SAT scores for the Class of 2014 increased overall in MCPS while declining at Sherwood. The scores are used by Sherwood administrators to target students who are struggling and to see what areas students overall need more improvement on. The scores, however, do not dictate what is taught to the students. Sherwood’s Class of 2014 … Read More
By Madison Dymond ‘16 Shortly following Superintendent Joshua Starr’s decision to recommend against later start times for Montgomery County due to financial restrictions, The Fairfax County School Board voted 11 to 1 to delay start times to between 8 a.m. and 8:10 a.m. in the county’s 22 high schools and three secondary schools. According to an article in the Washington … Read More
On Tuesday, Superintendent Joshua Starr visited Sherwood as one of the middle and high schools in a series of town hall meetings. Students who attended the town hall asked a myriad of questions concerning academic programs and MCPS’s distribution of funds. “The more we can engage them in the leadership conversation the better we are as a community and as … Read More
By Connor Loughran ’15 Q: Can Ebola can be spread through the air, water, or casual contact with an infected person? Answer: Ebola can only spread via close physical contact with an infected person’s feces, vomit, blood, sweat, semen, or other bodily fluids Q: Does treating Ebola patients in America puts Americans at risk? Answer: Because the CDC has a mandatory … Read More
By Haley Whitt ’15 With the emergence of Ebola in the United States last month, MCPS took action to address any fears and anxieties of students and staff. As a result of concerns, MCPS developed a plan to address any suspected case of the virus in a student, according to an article in The Gazette. Previously, any student with a … Read More
Betselot Wondimu ’15 On October 28, the Maryland State Board of Education (MSBE) accepted a plan that pushed back PARCC exams as a graduation requirement for high school students to the 2016-17 school year. The approval came after MCPS Board of Education President Philip Kauffman wrote a letter to MSBE Superintendent Lillian Lowery on October 7, asking that the state … Read More