School life, between the linesBy Admissions Diary
School stories, admissions adventures, and the things parents talk about on the way home.
School life · Maryland, Indiana and Chicago
In October 2006, eleven students from Rome spent ten days at a Maryland high school. Their first look at American high school was a hallway decorated as Candyland.
School life · Vermont, Minnesota and New York
Vermont and Minnesota let students name state snowplows. The results include Luke Snow Walker, Plow-a-Tron 6000 and Blizzo, and one fourth grader with a plan for winter.
School life · Winnetka, Illinois
New Trier's class of 2020 set a world record as freshmen. By graduation the twins had a harder question: same college or not?
School life · Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and a collection of childhood letters
Two American schools and a London archive file claims with the tooth fairy. A parent who has been caught on the landing with a dollar takes notes.
School life · Minneapolis
In 1971 a student teacher in Minneapolis wanted his eighth graders to care about history. His roommates put his board game on a computer in a week. It printed on paper.
School life · Connecticut & Wyoming
In 2017, Connecticut students made a music video to get Dilophosaurus named the state dinosaur. Thirty years earlier, Wyoming fifth graders lobbied for a fossil fish and nearly lost it to a rattlesnake.
School life · American kitchens
Campbell's Labels for Education ran from 1973 to 2018. Families clipped, schools redeemed, and one parent saved the wrong labels for years.
School life · Indiana & Virginia
In 1971 an astronaut carried tree seeds around the Moon. Nobody kept track of where the trees went. In the 1990s, an Indiana class went looking for one.
School life · Mississippi, New York and Connecticut
Mississippi students trade recess for a meteorology program. Connecticut third graders miss their TV weatherman on his days off. A first-grade station took requests.
School life · Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota
Mother ducks keep nesting in elementary-school courtyards with no exit except the hallway. The schools have learned to hold the door.
School life · Alabama, Maryland and North Carolina
Three school-age borrowers returned their library books decades late. Two of them did the arithmetic on the fines. One of them brought a joke.
School life · Maine and Massachusetts
A Maine middle school buried a capsule in 1986 and forgot where. A newspaper declared the mystery solved, a year before the dig.
