"Stuyvesant student Isamu Fukui is in a class by himself ( Read more... )

Look, it's another post about A Class Apart! You'd think we have nothing else to talk about.
CELEBRATE NEW BOOK ABOUT STUYVESANT BY ALUM ALEC KLEIN '85 ( Read more... )

I guess the reviews for A Class Apart are finally starting to roll in, because I just found one in, of all places, the Rocky Mountain News:

Best tidbit: The pressure doesn't come just from the students. Klein writes: "Irate, overbearing parents are a common phenomenon at Stuyvesant. One parent called Mr. Waxman, the Hebrew teacher, to ask, 'Is ( Read more... )

In today's Daily News, a Stuy writeup/fluff piece, basically to promote Alec Klein's (Stuy '85, Brown '89) A Class Apart:
Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools. But also, profiles of a few current students, plus the question: how many of you could, today, realistically pose as a Stuy student ( Read more... )

Went looking for Stuyvesant-related articles this morning, noticed this little gem. I hadn't actually heard about this before:

At the Head of the Class
So selective that it admits only 3 percent of the kids who take its intense entrance exam, Stuyvesant High School is the pride of New York City's public schools. In the spring of 2006, author and ( Read more... )

If you haven't heard of it yet, LibraryThing is THE book cataloging website. It's incredibly easy to use, and it pulls data from Amazon, the Library of Congress, and almost 50 libraries from across the world, so you're almost guaranteed to find your book somewhere (and can still resort to manual input if needed). It also tells you who else shares ( Read more... )

One of yesterday's posts on Overheard in New YorkTeen girl: You know, relationships are a lot like the British government. The queen thinks she's in charge, but the prime minister has all the power ( Read more... )

So, some of you may remember Ned Vizzini '99 (ned_vizzini), and Ned's front-page article on Stuy in the New York Press. Some of you may even have read or bought Ned's first book, which was basically a collection of his NYP columns. And *some* of you may know that Ned just got a first novel published, Be More Chill, which gets my money if nothing else then ( Read more... )

Oh my dear god..

I was just flipping, and..
Fear

Apparently, the film and television rights to Ned Vizzini's book have been sold, and it is going to become a movie by Miramax films.

I am so very frightened right now..

Generation Girls International High School Environment Play Set

For those who don't know/remember, Barbie Generation Girls is a product line the back story for which has Barbie and a standard multi-culturual cast of friends attending an elite and exclusive school on Chambers Street, accessible via pedestrian tunnel passing under the highway. Can ( Read more... )