One of Ethical Culture Fieldston’s most famous alumni is John Robert Oppenheimer ‘21, theoretical physicist who directed the science, and the machinery behind the science, of the Manhattan Project, the secret war-time
“State government is this humongous hulking beast of a bureaucracy,” says Josh Vlasto, a Fieldston Alum and former chief of staff to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo. And hardly anyone at
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Walter Levis is a journalist, writer and teacher at Fieldston Upper School. His first job was as a journalist and in 2007, he began teaching part-time at Fieldston. All those who have
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For the past two decades, Jon Richer has worn multiple hats. Richer has been a math teacher, dean and assistant principal in the Fieldston Middle School. While it’s clear his professional specialty
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America is currently facing an era in which it is becoming increasingly polarized; political ideologies, rather than the voices of the American people, are guiding the people in power. Our news and
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As high schoolers we prioritize the five or six core academic subjects. The moment we enter ninth grade, it’s as if the focus of school shifts from learning how to write an
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