Many PPS students were expecting to be back in real classes on November 9, but the school board has voted to put it off for a couple more months.

As classes have continued virtually since August, parents and administrators have had concerns about how this shift will impact learning.

Naviance. We’ve been lectured about, assigned seemingly meaningless tasks on it, and overall most students don’t give it a second thought.

Technology is transforming education with new opportunities for student engagement and collaboration through online learning and interactive whiteboards.

Circles have gotten a lot of shade thrown their way at Allderdice since they were first instituted in the beginning of the 2018-2019 school year.

In response to the economic and educational chaos caused by Covid-19, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed Senate Bill 751

Prior to January 20th, if you had asked me to associate a poem with the incoming Biden administration, I would have said, “the one where hope and history rhyme,”

At 5:30 AM on November 6th, Former President Donald J. Trump secured the presidency by clinching Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes.

On December 19, Allderdice Baseball standouts Zack Shook and Landon Blank each signed their letters of intent to continue their academic and athletic careers in college.

Taylor Allderdice High school is a school not only with high academic quality but also hosts some of the best city league sports teams.

A year full of firsts that included learning everything through a computer and getting acclimated to new platforms like Microsoft Teams and Schoology

After the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburgh, the second woman to be on the Supreme Court, I wanted to talk to other women around Allderdice to see how they were feeling.

On January 31, Assistant Principal Ms. Davies held assemblies for juniors in which, among other new policies, she revealed that the work release program would not exist next year.

Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) is taking on the fight to vaccinate.

After forty-five-and-a-half years as an educator, beloved Allderdice teacher Ms. Mina Levenson announced her retirement this summer.

Our first full in-person school year since COVID-19 has brought many opportunities back to the Allderdice community.

When checking in on the progress of the current administration, it feels only appropriate to bring attention to one of the most groundbreaking women in American history

The four best words of the day for many students at Allderdice are Hola Clase, Buenos dias!

Starting from the time students enter kindergarten, they are taught about the history of the United States.

Civics is one of the most essential classes students take during their time at Allderdice.

Gym. Something every student at Allderdice has to take.

Adults love to give teenagers a bad reputation for not getting enough sleep due to the fact they are spending to much time on their phones or watching Netflix late into the night.

The Allderdice Senior Sunrise may have been sparsely attended, but the behind-the-scenes drama has garnered more attention.

Gritty. A word used by almost everyone I talked to about Jerry Haslett.

The start of the school year has brought concerns from parents and students alike

Public schools, such as Allderdice, have to fulfill certain requirements that Title IX mandates because they are funded by the government.

In late December, beloved math teacher Ms. Goodman was diagnosed with an aggressive form of liver cancer.

As the pandemic has forced school to move from Shady Avenue to hundreds of computer screens, all Allderdice students have had to adjust to online learning.

Allderdice freshman Thomas Aldous says of competing and ultimately, winning first place in the Samueli Foundation Prize at the 2022 Broadcom MASTERS competition through the Society of Science.

Unless you are completely out of the loop, chances are the typical Allderdice student knows all too well that Mac Miller was once a student in this building.

Education is one of the most important investments that a person can make in their lifetime. It provides individuals with the necessary skills.

The transition to an entirely new format of school due to the ongoing pandemic is a challenge for both students and teachers alike.

In the two months of summer break when all the students and teachers were nowhere to be seen, people were hard at work renovating the building for the next year.

The 2020-21 school year was an anomaly in the history of education. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, schools were forced to resort to the online world to help them navigate a new school year.

Winter break is over and we’re all struggling to get adjusted to normal life. On top of that, finals are looming in front of us.

Earlier this year a plan was proposed by Kashif Henderson, the coordinator of the gifted and talented program in the PPS school district

"To teach is to touch a life forever." -Anonymous

Across the country, Advanced Placement (AP) courses were developed in the 1950s to ensure that highschools were thoroughly preparing students for college.

Classes at Taylor Allderdice High School typically hold approximately thirty students.

On July 14, Kevin Bivins, Assistant Superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools, announced in a virtual live hearing that the school district would be utilizing Schoology

On Friday, November 8, more than 1,600 students, teachers, and faculty participated in an ALICE drill, a program adopted by Pittsburgh Public Schools in March of 2018

For the past couple weeks, counselors have been meeting with juniors to talk about where they are in the college process.

Taylor Allderdice High School students now have a unique opportunity: they can spend one lunch period a week talking with classmates who do not speak the same language.

As we enter our eleventh month of quarantine and school has continued to be online

This month, in light of the COVID-19 health crisis, Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) students launched the start of their school year completely virtually.

Allderdice Senior Michal Hajlasz has advanced in the Regeneron Science Talent Search after winning two thousand dollars by placing in the top three hundred projects.

For the past two years (including the year and a half of online instruction) Ms. Moyer and Ms. Mager, art teachers at Allderdice, have been tasked with instructing two separate classes

At Allderdice, Senior Skip Day is a day that is hated by most teachers and loved by the upperclassmen.

Five days a week, hundreds of students walk up the front steps and past the green and white lettering that spells out the name of our school on their way into the building.

Following a five-year hiatus, Allderdice’s annually published journal of the creative arts, “Dragonbreath,” is returning.

After word spread that the coronavirus had reached Pittsburgh, many students thought we would have one or two weeks off from school at most.

For the duration of the fall 2021 semester at Allderdice, students experienced a schedule shift

With the new school year beginning, many students will be taking AP classes. With so many people taking so many AP classes, it's important to be aware of changes taking place.

Imagine this: You groggily make your way to your last period math class

As a hot first week of school swept over Pittsburgh Public Schools, many questions arose about how the district would react.