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David Yaffe-Bellany

David Yaffe-Bellany is a reported based in San Francisco.

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After latest setback, Patel reveals reasons for non-renewal

The contract of North art teacher Nishan Patel will not be renewed, despite impassioned pleas from students and parents, a list posted on WW-P’s website yesterday afternoon confirms. The list, which […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on May 13, 2015

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While We’re Young: May you stay forever hip

In one memorable scene from writer-director Noah Baumbach’s 2005 comedy The Squid and the Whale, Bernard Berkman, a pompous novelist played by Jeff Daniels, calls for A Tale of Two […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on May 12, 2015

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North students hold sit-in to protest Patel firing

More than 150 North students held a sit-in in the main hallway during lunch last Thursday to protest the firing of popular art teacher Nishan Patel.  The demonstration was the […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on April 27, 2015

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Teachers and administrators disagree on aspects of PARCC preparation

The rollout of a new national standardized test has generated anxiety among some West Windsor-Plainsboro language arts teachers, despite assurances from district administrators that students will perform well on the […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on March 25, 2015

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District administrators grapple with local opposition to PARCC exam

One hundred thirty-eight West Windsor-Plainsboro students, less than two percent of eligible test-takers in grades 3 to 11, have opted out of the first phase of a new national standardized […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on March 15, 2015

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The Explainer: Demystifying the PARCC

This month, WW-P students in grades 3 to 11 will take the first phase of a new standardized exam. The PARCC test—a two-part assessment designed by the Partnership for Assessment […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on March 4, 2015

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Outside the Classroom: A conversation with North’s new security guards

This is the first installment in a new Knightly News series about the men and women who work behind the scenes at North: the janitors, security guards, secretaries, mechanics and […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on December 17, 2014

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To run or not to run?

Last spring, sophomore distance runner Vincenzo Pugliese broke a school record for the boys’ track and field team.  But at the end of the season, Pugliese switched gears.  This fall, […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on December 17, 2014

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Busting the myth of the Stanford University blacklist

—Wikipedia It’s a story West Windsor-Plainsboro high school students have told each other for almost a decade: Stanford University, now the nation’s most selective college, has blacklisted WW-P applicants, only […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on November 23, 2014

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Force Majeure explores marriage and masculinity

Force Majeure, a Swedish film directed by Ruben Ostlund, opens with a picture-perfect family—a father, a mother and two children, all bedecked in expensive-looking ski equipment—posing in front of a […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on November 21, 2014

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Love conquers all (even New York City housing)

The central conflict of Love is Strange, director Ira Sachs’ beautiful new film, boils down to a question of real estate.  In the opening minutes, Ben (John Lithgow, The World […]

By David Yaffe-Bellany Posted on October 28, 2014

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