More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Franz Kafka urged that "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." There is nothing idle or rote in a deep critical engagement with the living, changing tide of ideas that we call literature. Our work in language arts is moved by the imperative to discover our powers while we are still young, that is to say, while we still harbor the capacity for imagination, belief, conviction. We read and we write and we debate in order each to shape our place among the world.
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Franz Kafka urged that "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." There is nothing idle or rote in a deep critical engagement with the living, changing tide of ideas that we call literature. Our work in language arts is moved by the imperative to discover our powers while we are still young, that is to say, while we still harbor the capacity for imagination, belief, conviction. We read and we write and we debate in order each to shape our place among the world.