Many Jackson-Reed students joined thousands of other Americans and high schoolers in protests last month, calling for a stop to violence committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The protests...

As the first generation to fully grow up in a world of cellphones and doomscrolling, it’s impossible to imagine life any other way. Between the hours spent doing school work on our laptops, to obsessively...

Most of us like to think of our school as a pretty progressive place - we have discussions about elections in class, we drape the school in pride flags and champion every history month out there. But the...

DC’s metro was said to have reached its fifth highest ridership in history on Saturday, March 29th with 558,000 tourists and Washingtonians. I am proud to say I was one of the 558,000 disgruntled commuters...

Idioms Recently, I overheard a person use the phrase "Who died and made you king?" mid-argument and I was reminded how much I love English idioms. Can we appreciate the awesomeness that is an idiom? A...

The Academy of Global Studies (AGS), formerly the Wilson International Studies Program, will soon evolve to become a DC Career Technical Education (CTE) program, the Academy of Global Service and Diplomacy....

Founded in 1935, Woodrow Wilson High School was an all-white public high school built across the street from a recently demolished Black neighborhood. Now named Jackson-Reed, our building has decades of...

The state of the economy consistently polls as one of the most important issues to American voters, and this 2024 election was no different. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump had disparate approaches to increasing...

As DCPS veterans, we know the joys of the candygram, and those of us who had the privilege to witness the La La Love Grams last year can attest to how Jackson-Reed has our back when professing our undying...

On January 2, Jackson-Reed hosted a mandatory Professional Development (PD) Day focused on having “courageous conversations” between students and teachers. The sessions were a joint effort between...

Everyone has heard about it. Everyone knows. And from the sound of it, everyone is going. And to be completely honest, so are we! But no, it’s not Oppenheimer, it’s not Barbie: it’s the one and only...

Everyone has heard about it. Everyone knows. And from the sound of it, everyone is going. And to be completely honest, so are we! But no, it’s not Oppenheimer, it’s not Barbie: it’s the one and only...

We’ve all heard about finals from our private school friends. At least we did before they disappeared into their study-filled worlds. But aren’t we glad that most of us don’t have to suffer through...

As the school year draws to a close, the summer renovation process begins in the hope that repairs will be completed before the start of the 2023-24 school year.  Jackson-Reed’s renovations and maintenance,...

I hate school shooter drills. I hate sitting on the floor, I hate the migraine-inducing PA screech, I hate waiting for the day that the chewed up gum on the bottom of the table becomes lodged in my hair....

Jackson-Reed is home to 40 sports; some teams, some club teams. Some are recognized by DCIAA, the DC public schools youth sports league that provides funding for the sports they recognize, including football,...

Every time November rolls around I have mixed feelings. The weather is nice, there are plenty of short weeks, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. But there’s this ever-looming event on my mind:...

As DCPS students, we have all spent time counting down the interminable 180 days of school, waiting for the next day off. We envy the private schools around us: they have longer breaks, they start later...

With the midterm elections just behind us, candidates and volunteers have spent recent months campaigning, passing out fliers, and encouraging people to vote. It seems like political messages are everywhere,...