Junior High Spy

"...Marcus van Bavel: Well, when I was back in high school I had always been interested in writing short..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

High School Homecoming

The nation’s best runner, that guy from Spoon, and me

"...Going to someone else's high school reunion/homecoming is sort of like looking at friends’..."

Oct. 19, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

University High

Community colleges are pushing "college credit" courses for high school students -- but the education is in doubt.

"...Jane is a straight-A high school student enrolled in a U.S. government course offered..."

June 8, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

A Walking Contradiction: Texas High Schools, Football, and Concussions

Thousands of students mash helmets every weekend – at what cost?

"...the 2013 season, one of many involving thousands of high school football players in Texas...."

Oct. 30, 2013 Sports Post by Joseph Baucum

Day Trips: Old Taylor High School, Taylor

Going back to school in Taylor

"...Old Taylor High School in Taylor is back in business. Opened in..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Connally High Culinarians Bring Home the Gold Again

Area culinary students win gold for second year in a row

"...Earlier this month, culinary students from 18 high schools in San Antonio, Austin, and South Texas competed..."

Jan. 28, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

McMoldy High School?

For one McCallum High student, every day is a sick day

"...room five times just since spring break. The McCallum High School sophomore was vomiting, having trouble breathing, and experiencing..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Raccoons On the Loose at McCallum High

But wait, there's also mold at AISD’s second-oldest high school

"...to remove a large, healthy raccoon from a McCallum High classroom. As they maneuver a plastic trash can near..."

May 5, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Undercover on High School's Ritziest Glitziest Night It All Goes Down at Prom

"...This is a different high school story than the one you're used to reading..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature

AISD High Schools Flunk Real-World Test

Audit says district poorly prepares grads for college or careers

"...AISD community – and then the future of AISD high schools...."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...In high school, Lewis and Albrecht’s friend Avalon Hancock, granddaughter of..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Balancing High School and a Budding Onigiri Business

Samurice entrepreneur Kenta Asazu will even deliver your order by bicycle

"...once thought, thanks to teachers being sympathetic to pandemic-stressed high schoolers. "I thought junior year would kick my ass,"..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Food Feature by James Scott

Sleepover

Spy Kids' Alexa Vega graduates to tween hijinks.

"...Lynch and Jeff Garlin. It’s the last day of junior high for Julie (Spy Kids’ Alexa Vega), and she..."

July 9, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Welcome to the Dollhouse

"...Daria Kalinina. Anyone who has suffered the indignity of junior high school will undoubtedly remember the experience as the..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Brooklyn Castle

"...– which holds more national chess titles than any junior high in the country – "the geeks are the..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Movie Review by Nora Ankrum

The Lizzie McGuire Movie

"...TV series jets off to Rome after her momentous junior-high graduation, but the Eternal City plays second fiddle to..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Wonder

Treacly feel-good drama nevertheless has helpful life lessons

"...syndrome, that marks him as an easy target for junior high thugs and nitwits. Having undergone over a dozen..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grown Ups

Grown Ups is the latest in an ongoing series of achingly nostalgic Adam Sandler schmaltzfests.

"...reunites with his four best friends from the old junior high school basketball team only to realize that his..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Class

There's no climactic rendering of "To Sir With Love" in this French classroom drama, just pedagogy in action, exquisitely observed.

"...school year in a French-language class in a Parisian junior high school in which virtually all the students are..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Half Nelson

Ryan Gosling's bleakly hopeful turn as crack-addicted teacher Dan in Half Nelson is matched only by the smoldering realism of newcomer Shareeka Epps.

"...damn heart again. But Gosling, as Dan, a Brooklyn junior high school teacher hooked on crack, has met his..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rebound

Although this Mighty Ducks/Bad News Bears clone is predictable and inoffensive, it's filled with sweet humor and well-drawn young characters.

"...that will hire him is that of his old junior high school, a team so bad and ill-trained they..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Max Keeble's Big Move

"...product placement for Handspring. In his first day of junior high, the titular mensch (Linz) gets roughed up by..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Valentine

"...when, was rudely left unchosen and dateless for his junior high school dance by a quartet of pre-pubescent super-vixens-in-training...."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Show Me Love

"...and begins scribbling her unrequited's name all over her junior-high textbooks, it's too close to home to remain unaffected;..."

April 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saint Clara

"...El Dror. Dateline: 1999, Haifa, Israel. At Golda Meir Junior High School, recent Russian émigré Clara Chabov (Dubinchik) has..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Brady Bunch Movie

"...belief), and to RuPaul, who works it as a junior high school guidance counselor who relishes teen angst. As..."

Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lunatics: A Love Story

"...involving. Director Becker began working in film with his junior high pals Sam Raimi (Becker did lighting and sound..."

May 29, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Future's So Bright ...

Johnston High School has problems with grades, attendance, dropouts, a magnet program resented by the host school, and a high turnover rate among principals. Will new principal Sal Cavazos stay and can he make a difference?

"...have the right and the obligation to graduate from high school -- they are a part of the leadership..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Patroling the CMT Highway

Junior Brown's Success on Country Music Television

"...country radio still shuns like a leper: Austin's own Junior Brown...."

Nov. 17, 1995 Music Feature

Dropping Out

Teachers Trade Low Pay for High Tech

"...as he rolled out his proposal to attract more high school students into advanced placement, college-credit courses. "Will we..."

June 5, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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