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Tuesday 6th of January, 2009
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Leonia Academy for Science
Holiday spirit was busting out all over Hackensack University Medical Center as junior Academy students John Lopez, Paul Chung, Rachael Kantor, and Patrick Yang took a picture with Santa! Juniors in the Leonia Academy for Science participate in a weekly internship at one of two hospitals in the area, HUMC or Englewood Hospital. While at the hospital these students are introduced to the world of medicine, in which many Academy students hope to practice a profession in the future. 
Dr. Pinker Reviews
The Lazarus Project
Dr. Michael Pinker, English teacher at Leonia High School, has published the lead book review in the Fall 2008 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, for which he is a regular reviewer. For this issue he reviewed The Lazarus Project, the newly published third novel by Bosnian-American author Aleksandar Hemon. Dr. Pinker is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
If you would like to read Dr. Pinker's review online, please click here.
| NY Giants Recognize LHS DECA Congratulations to the DECA team of Pam Carballo, Zoe Tesar and Robin Sifre for their excellent marketing campaign, Tackle Global Warming with the NY Giants. The NY Giants have awarded LHS third place in the recent DECA Marketing Challenge. For winning this campaign, the girls and Mrs. Gianfredi will be guests of the NY Giants at their game on Dec. 21 against the Carolina Panthers. Their tickets will include entrance to the field during pregame warm-ups.
DECA programs from Central and Northern NJ competed in this year’s challenge. Students were asked to design an “environmentally-friendly” campaign without using a “Go Green” platform, since the Jets are the “green” team and the NY Giants are the “blue” team”.
This is the third year that LHS DECA teams have been recognized by the NY Giants for their sports marketing campaigns. | 
Team Just Misses The LHS Quiz Bowl team traveled to Toms River on Thursday, November 20, to compete in the Monsignor Donovan Tournament. With 84 schools competing, only the top eight teams would advance to the playoff round. Leonia High School finished with 1835 points, just 5 points behind the 7th and 8th place teams, Absegani High School and Moorestown High School, from southern New Jersey. Although our team just missed making the playoffs, we placed a respectable 9th of all teams competing. | Debaters Continue Winning Ways The varsity Debate team competed at Dwight-Englewood School this month. Teams from seven schools participated, including Becton, Fort Lee, Ridgefield Park, River Dell, and North Bergen, as well as Leonia and the host school. Leonia debaters juniors Jordana Kozyreff / Rebecca Elder posted a strong performance, winning three of their four debates, placing them among the most successful teams at the tournament. The team of juniors Samantha DiCarlo / Clarice Mak also did well, winning both of their afternoon rounds. Seniors Akiva Katz and Michael Leone and juniors Paul Chung and Erick Oyerbide served as tournament judges. The varsity travels to Fair Lawn in December.  The novice team traveled to Wood-Ridge High School, where they met strong competition from Tenafly, Becton, Dwight-Englewood, and Wood-Ridge. Leonia compiled the best winning percentage at the tournament when all three teams ended the afternoon undefeated. The teams of sophomores Samantha Labombarda / Rebecca Schwartz and freshmen Justin Ziegler / Mark Gorenstein and Jeeyoon Emily Park / Maleyna Marks each won their affirmative and negative rounds. The novices were judged by veteran varsity judges senior Akiva Katz and junior Paul Chung and first-time judges junior Alexis Creed and senior Luis Corporan. Because of their success, the novice teams will compete on both the junior varsity and novice levels for the immediate future. The junior varsity team went to Fair Lawn High School for the November tournament. Leonia brought five teams, including the novice speakers who did so well at the Wood-Ridge tournament. J.V. debater Ye-Won Seo attended as an observer with her new partner, Marianne Yang; they should be ready to compete at the next tournament, which Leonia will host in December. Freshmen Justin Ziegler / Mark Gorenstein continued their successful first season by winning both of their debates against strong competition. Teams from River Dell, Bergen Academies, North Bergen, and Bergenfield, as well as host Fair Lawn, attended the tournament. Victories were also posted by the sophomore teams of Samantha Labombarda / Rebecca Schwartz and Sijin Kim / Rrita Daci. The Leonia judges for the tournament were senors Luis Corporan and Michael Leone and juniors Paul Chung, Alexis Creed, and Erick Oyerbide. | Leonia High School
Receives Statewide Recognition New Jersey Monthly includes LHS among Top 75 High Schools in New Jersey
Leonia High School earns highest state ranking ever in New Jersey Monthly, placing #51, beating its previous highest ranking, #66, in 2006. Prior to 2006, Leonia’s highest ranking was #75.
Among Leonia’s district socio-economic factor classification, FG-GH, Leonia High School is ranked #6 in the state. Only Jonathan Dayton HS (#32), Highland Park HS (#33), Midland Park HS (#44), Whippany Park HS (#45) and Wayne Valley HS (#46) earned higher rankings than LHS.
For more details go to Newjerseymonthly.com
Congratulations to the entire Leonia High School community!
| LEONIA HIGH SCHOOL
RANKED #409 IN NEWSWEEK/WASHINGTON POST 2008 CHALLENGE INDEX OF
AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOLS In the corrected version of its 2008 Challenge Index, this Newsweek/Washington Post poll ranked Leonia High School #409 of 27,000 high schools nationwide. Among the 46 New Jersey high schools included, Leonia placed sixth.
The explanation of the Challenge Index below is taken from the Washington Post website. For more information and discussion, go to: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/challengeindex
/2008/?sid=ST2008051900652 The Newsweek and Washington Post Challenge Index measures a public high school’s effort to challenge its students. The formula is simple: Divide the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or Cambridge tests a school gave by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June. Tests taken by all students, not just seniors, are counted. Magnet or charter schools with SAT combined verbal and math averages higher than 1300, or ACT average scores above 29, are not included, since they do not have enough average students who need a challenge.
The rating is not a measurement of the overall quality of the school, but illuminates one factor that many educators consider important.
The list ... includes all public schools with a rating of 1.000. There are nearly 1,400 -- the top 5 percent of all 27,000 U.S. high schools in encouraging students to take AP, IB, or Cambridge tests. Also listed are the name of the city or school district and the percentage of a school’s students whose family incomes are low enough to qualify for federally subsidized lunches and who also apply for that program [abbreviated in the list under the heading Subs. Lunch]. The portion of subsidized-lunch applicants is a rough indicator of a school’s poverty level. High-poverty schools are at a disadvantage in persuading students to take college-level courses, but some on this list have succeeded in doing so anyway.
The Equity and Excellence [abbreviated in the list under the heading E&E] rate is the percentage of all seniors who have had at least one score on an AP, IB, or Cambridge test that would qualify them for college credit. The average AP Equity and Excellence rate for all U.S. schools is about 15 percent.
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