In many ways, the Beacon School is a New York ... With such high expectations, my head often felt like an overstuffed suitcase. Facts about the Silk Road, geometric logic, el subjuntivo, and ...

Students skipped class Monday to teach their own lessons about what they say is a culture of racism at the elite Beacon public high school. Students say long-standing tensions boiled over when a ...

“You say that in front of people of color,” a fellow student challenged my daughter in the high school cafeteria ... of her peers at Manhattan’s Beacon High, they were fighting words.

NEW YORK — Naia Timmons, a junior from Harlem, stood surrounded by classmates in the middle of the street outside Beacon High School as hail began to fall. Beacon High School Is Half White.