It was his first post as school principal. When the soft spoken, mild mannered young man walked in the door to take up his new position, he had no prior experience in running even a “normal” school. And this was no normal school.
Junior High School 22, a hotbed of drugs and violence, was [...]

Obesity among children and adolescents in New York has tripled over the last 30 years, according to the New York State Department of Health. Apparently, a quarter of New York City schoolchildren between kindergarten and fifth grade are overweight, as are an even greater proportion of the City’s high-schoolers.
A columnist writing in The New York [...]