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  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    Constant Star

    Decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Ida B. Wells did the same thing on a train

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    What's Wrong With Wheatley?

    It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

  • Calendar

    January 15, 1998

    Press Picks

    It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

  • Culture

    April 9, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Hunter Gatherers, Little Women

    It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

  • Culture

    April 2, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Constant Star, Doubt, Les Misérables, Steel Magnolias

    It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    It has history, it has heritage. But does Wheatley High School have a real future?

  • News

    March 7, 2002

    The Great Divide

    Principal Lawrence Allen is a role model to some, an inept bumbler to others. Jones High School is split: Magnet-program parents versus the local community. It's up to Superintendent Kaye Stripling to make it right. Lucky her.

  • News

    April 5, 2001

    To Be A Geek, A Robot God

    An epic saga of genius, striving, triumph and survival in which our heroes, mere high school students, create truly marvelous mechanical beings, becoming fairly amazing human beings in the process

  • News

    April 11, 1996

    Fourth and Long

    Dreams of Glory Die Hard in Semipro football

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    ESPN And CNN In Death-Cage Opinion Brawl Over Yates High School

    Yates represents.​Yates High School's basketball team continues its roll to a state championship, a role that's included some very large blow-outs of over-matched opponentsIt's attracted nationwide attention, and now two of the biggest brand names on television are getting into it.First came Rick ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Obama's Desperate Commencement-Speech Offer: At Least One HISD School Takes Him Up On It

    Official Whote House photoAnyone want a speaker? Anyone?​A news item today, gleefully highlighted by the Drudge Report, noted an internal Obama administration memo bemoaning the lack of offers from high schools for the president to give the commencement speech. We're thinking this probably fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    HISD Test Scores Arrive With a Big But

    Let the spin begin​The news that Houston ISD's number of exemplary schools dropped from 101 in 2010 to 59 in 2011, according to the Texas Education Agency's figures just released at 1 p.m. today, could only add more fuel to the fire of critics who are certain Superintendent Terry Grier is dest ... More >>

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