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  • Overcrowded language classes raise concerns for PHS parents

    School officials cite budget problems By: Rachel Silverman    One Latin class has 29 students.    An advanced French section packs in 26.    Beginning Japanese boasts 28.    At Princeton High School, these numbers are not atypical: Thirteen of the school’s foreign language classes have more than 25 students.    According to a group of parents at Monday afternoon’s…

  • Parents worry over class size

    Some fear that teachers are being stretched to their limits. By: Jessica Beym    The growing class sizes at the Cranbury School has some parents and administrators concerned about future growth and possible problems with education, personnel and facilities.    A half-dozen parents who attended the Board of Education meeting Monday said they feel that teachers are…

  • Weichert Realtors hosts Toy Drive

    Weichert offices will accept donations of new, unwrapped toys from now through December    James M. Weichert, president, is pleased to announce the launch of Weichert Realtors’ 27th Annual Toy Drive. Each of the company’s sales offices will collect toys for distribution to financially and/or physically disadvantaged children within the local communities.    Weichert offices will accept…

  • Sacks-Wilner named to board of state planning group

    By: Jake Uitti    The Regional Planning Partnership of New Jersey has appointed Montgomery Planning Board Chairman Steven Sacks-Wilner to its board.    "I was very excited," Mr. Sacks-Wilner said. "I want to see RPP more involved in formulating public policy. I hope that is one of my primary functions."    Mr. Sacks-Wilner said he is looking forward…

  • Shapiro book links society to higher education

    Exploring the role a modern research university should play as an ethical force and steward of the people By: David Campbell    A new book by former Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro explores the role the modern research university should play today as an ethical force and steward of society.    "A Larger Sense of Purpose:…

  • Falcons cap greatest season as Jimenez has monster day

    By: Kenneth Weingartner    If there was any question whether the Monroe High football team belonged in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III playoffs, it was answered with a resounding "yes" last weekend.    If there was any question whether winning a school-record seventh game meant anything to the Falcons, it, too, was answered emphatically in the…

  • Inner-city exchange opens eyes of high school students

    West Windsor-Plainsboro North students swap school with Lincoln High in Philadelphia By: Emily Craighead    During an exchange between their two schools, students at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia discovered that numbers don’t tell the whole story.    Nearly 85 percent of West Windsor-Plainsboro high school students went on to college…

  • Operation Smile legacy lives in a student’s sense of charity

    A life-altering experience in Morocco for Princeton High School senior By: Rachel Silverman    In a small hospital in Meknès, Morocco, Ashley Roome fell in love.    It was there that Ashley, a senior at Princeton High School, watched a 13-month-old baby undergo surgery for a cleft lip. Ashley consoled the fretting parents, who traveled 11 hours…

  • Experts cut through mystique of college application process

    Panel provides advice to Princeton High School students By: Rachel Silverman    The big, bad college application process?    Between transcripts and interviews and that dreaded little acronym of SAT, getting into the nation’s top-tier colleges can seem daunting.    But according to a panel of admissions officers gathered at Princeton High School on Wednesday night, college applications…