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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

Staff Editorial

The Spectrum Staff December 14, 2024

Are you doing this for yourself or for colleges?  Resume building requires the space and time to evaluate who you are as a person–interests, identities, etc. Resume building can be a helpful mirror...

Staff Editoral: Editors Urge Civic Engagment

Staff Editoral: Editors Urge Civic Engagment

The Spectrum Staff October 30, 2024

When it comes down to it, there is a straightforward truth. We, The Spectrum Staff, know you donít want to hear us say it; we know you have heard it twenty times before but have a political awareness,...

Staff Editorial

Staff Editorial

February 17, 2024

Why do people break rules? How should these rules be enforced? How should privileges be awarded? Rules that seem simple, such as cleaning up your lunch table, not using the elevator and not leaving campus...

Staff Editorial

Staff Editorial

Maggie Seidel, Business Manager December 7, 2020

Despite the many hardships that 2020 has posed, this year has simultaneously offered new perspectives about human interaction, societal issues, and personal health. No community has been immune to the...

Spectrum Staff Offers Advice to Hybrid Teachers, Administrators

Spectrum Staff Offers Advice to Hybrid Teachers, Administrators

Emma Martinez Sutton, Editor in Chief October 2, 2020

While the semblance of normalcy that hybrid learning delivers is exciting, the system is complicated and not without flaws. Now a month into the new system, students have passed the initial shock and have...

Staff Editorial: COVID-19 Closures and Openings Elicit Conversations About the Balance Between Economic Security and Health

Staff Editorial: COVID-19 Closures and Openings Elicit Conversations About the Balance Between Economic Security and Health

Maggie Seidel, Features Editor May 20, 2020

Since the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting states differently, the stay-at-home orders mandated by individual state governors are enacted on a state-by- state basis. These differing responses, closures,...

Re-defining discourse

Maxine Whitely and John Miller, Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager December 3, 2015

In the wake of national unrest about race relations on college campuses, discussions of the subject have naturally permeated into high schools, too. Uncomfortable, necessary conversations have graced our...

A collection of stress-provoking literature.

Staff Editorial: Overworked and stressed

Sam Gittleman, Opinions Editor October 30, 2015

Posted up in the new English wing lounge, a group of ninth graders, merely ankle-deep in the maelstrom of high school, illustrates the heaviness of a Blake student’s course load; there is evidence of...

Voice of the Staff: Open-Source Textbooks

Voice of the Staff: Open-Source Textbooks

The Spectrum Staff September 29, 2015

You finish the final page of The Things They Carried, put it aside, open up your laptop, and begin reading again. But this time, it’s for chemistry on your digital textbook. With such rapid technological...

Staff Editorial: Different approach to service could spark lifelong commitment

Staff Editorial: Different approach to service could spark lifelong commitment

Maxine Whitely, Editor-In-Chief March 19, 2015

The importance of service resounded in the community as advisories spent the second half of a Wednesday afternoon engaging in volunteer work. Some students took charge of the planning and helped find a...

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