An old school building in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood, once vacant and “creepy,” is now buzzing with life while teaching ...

PHOENIX — Sports was a haven for Brenda Tracy during her middle and high school years, with volleyball and basketball pulling the long-limbed adolescent out of her house — and head.

There is much to celebrate at the half-century mark of the Campus School at Boston College: the education of some 2,500 special needs students in a “culture of care,” based on the philosophy that all ...