The Urban Legend

Caffeine: helpful tool or addictive drug?

Ella Chen, Staff Writer • November 18, 2021

Urban students often show up to their 8:30 a.m. morning class with a cup of coffee or a Yerba Mate in hand. Between long days of school, extracurriculars and limited hours of sleep, caffeine can provide...

Urban faculty reflects on reformed grading system

Ben Katznelson, News Editor • May 21, 2020

With Urban’s shift to virtual school, significant changes have been necessary to alleviate students’ and teachers’ stress. As such, Geoff Ruth, Academic Dean, announced on April 16 that Urban’s...

Seniors take classes to explore what’s next

Alyssa Romo, Staff Writer • May 18, 2017

In the spring term of each school year , the Urban School offers exclusively senior courses that explore topics not included in the Urban curriculum called Senior Spring classes: One Acts, Cal Studies,...

An annoying sophomore’s take on his “favorite” Urban classes

Kian Nassre, staff writer • May 18, 2017

Computer Science 1 & 2 My name for it: there are 10 types of people in this world, people who get binary and people who don’t. Computer Science is rather hard to explain, so I will define some...

From Computer Science to Global Lit Nigeria: How the Urban school’s electives come to be

Sophia Vahanvaty, Staff Writer • February 7, 2017

From Modern Middle East to Infectious Disease, Urban’s curriculum boasts a strong course catalogue of diverse elective offerings. Each course comes to fruition with a process much more complex and...

Don’t flip out: Urban tries a new approach to classes and homework

Eli Dinkelspiel, Staff Writer • February 17, 2012

It was a warm Monday evening. Birds were swooping and chirping outside my windowsill. The net of the basketball hoop was swaying in the breeze. I was thinking of all the videogames I could be playing....