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E W S Student essays featured in online textbook Three years ago, 10th-grade English teachers John Gould and Paul Kalkstein '61 began collecting essays from their students, who were studying expository writing, and posting them on the school's Web site. The students wrote about sports, about family members, about childhood experiences, about boarding school. The result is The Andover Reader, an original online textbook of student work, located at http://www.andover.edu/english/200/reader/home.htm. It consists of essays followed by study questions for many types of expository writing: description, narration, comparison and contrast, process, classification, cause and effect, definition, analogy and analysis. "Putting The Andover Reader on the Web makes it available to other schools for free," says Gould. "If others use it, we will be extending the academy's mission—to provide educational opportunity to youth from every quarter—around the world. Who knows how far this can go?" Gould and Kalkstein hope many students and teachers of expository writing will discover and feel free to use this text. They have included a feedback form, requesting suggestions and criticisms from users and submissions from other 10th-graders.
Chase teaches history Head of School Barbara Chase accepted an invitation from the Department of History and Social Science to teach history this year. "This has been a dream of mine for quite some time," she says. "I am excited about getting back into the classroom." Chase is team-teaching a section of History 300 with history instructor Sarah Manekin. |
Disabilities
suit against school dismissed A student who sued Phillips Academy under the Americans with Disabilities Act after he was dismissed for poor academic performance ended his case in federal court in Boston on Aug. 3. Nicholas Panagopoulos and his mother, Nancy Axelrod '71, signed a joint stipulation of dismissal that withdrew all claims for damages against the school. Panagopoulos was required to withdraw from PA in 1998 after failing to meet academic requirements. He and his mother sued the school, claiming Phillips Academy had not accommodated his Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). After a nine-day bench trial in spring 1999, U.S. District Court Judge Edward F. Harrington found the school had amply accommodated Panagopoulos' ADHD, and the judge upheld the school's right to dismiss him. However, Judge Harrington allowed the plaintiffs to have the case heard by a jury, and it was scheduled for trial in September 2000. Subsequently, Harrington urged the parties to enter into mediation, after which the plaintiffs agreed to withdraw all claims of damages against the school. PA underwrote the cost of mediation and granted the family a refund of one year's tuition, a portion of which was payable to the plaintiffs under the school's tuition insurance program. Judge Harrington endorsed the parties' request to dismiss the case. Yo-Yo Ma performs |
Copyright, Phillips Academy, 2000
World-renowned
cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed for the Andover community on Oct. 6 in Cochran
Chapel. PA's symphony orchestra accompanied Ma during the second half
of the concert, which featured pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn.
Among the program's highlights was a Leonard Bernstein duet Ma played
with Megan Prado '01 at the evening's end.
