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	Walter Johnson High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Johnson High School was founded in 1956 as part of the Montgomery County Public School system (MCPS).
		WJHS became the second high school in Bethesda, after Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, and a fierce cross-town rivalry was born.
		Walter Johnson High School was rated as one of "America's Best High Schools" by Newsweek magazine and was named the 45th best public high school in the nation for 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Johnson_High_School (635 words)

	Walter Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnson was a better-than-average hitter for a pitcher, compiling a career batting average of.235.
		One of the first five electees to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, Walter Johnson retired in Germantown, Maryland and was elected Montgomery County commissioner in 1938.
		Johnson's gentle nature was legendary, and to this day he is held up as an example of good sportsmanship and his name has become synonymous with friendly competition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Johnson (958 words)

	WASHINGTONIAN - Getting High (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Walter Johnson, which ranked 47th on a 2003 Newsweek list of the top 100 public schools in the nation, is one of six Montgomery County schools with an open-lunch policy for all grade levels.
		Walter Johnson assistant principal Carol Goddard doesn’t think open lunch is a problem—students who smoke during lunch, she says, aren’t engaged in school and would leave during the school day to smoke anyway.
		Maggie was a sophomore at the Edmund Burke School in Northwest DC.
	www.washingtonian.com /people/gettinghigh.html (6059 words)

	Website of Congressman Chris Van Hollen :: Speech :: Tribute to Walter Johnson High School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Speaker, it is with great honor that I rise to congratulate a high school in my District, Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, for winning the 2005 Washington Area “It’s Academic” television quiz show Superbowl.
		Walter Johnson High School is being recognized for its win in the Superbowl match, which featured regional champions Robert E. Lee High School from Central Virginia and Centennial High School from Baltimore.
		The school’s victory in the “It’s Academic” program, which is an extracurricular activity at 81 schools across the region, demonstrates the benefits of academic competition in our schools.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/speech/md08_vanhollen/wjtribute.html (221 words)

	Seniors earn credit pushing pot reform
		The pair, who graduated from Walter Johnson High School on Tuesday, helped "educate the public about the effects of our nation's marijuana policies and the need for more reasonable, compassionate alternatives," according to their student activity application form.
		Teaching Sunday school is not an acceptable way to earn volunteer credit in Montgomery County public schools, said Mary Ruttkay of the Walter Johnson PTA.
		She was reprimanded by school officials for choosing marijuana prohibition, but a coach encouraged her to stick with it.
	www.mpp.org /news/wt061000.html (595 words)

	'It's Academic' Title Goes to Walter Johnson
		Montgomery County high schools have consistently won the "It's Academic" Washington area championship matches between public and private high schools.
		Walter Johnson competed against James Hubert Blake High School of Silver Spring and Richard Montgomery High School of Rockville, each with a three-member team.
		Walter Johnson won $1,100 for the championship match, while Blake and Richard Montgomery each won $550.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060801394_pf.html (476 words)

	Home
		The Mission of Johnson Junior High School, in partnership with the community, is to challenge and empower students to reach their full potential.
		We believe students have the right to be taught in a setting where high expectations and support go hand-in-hand.
		Johnson is considering implementing Standard School Attire for the 2006-07 school year.
	www.ccsd.net /schools/johnson (130 words)

	Wayne's high school years
		I went to North Bethesda Junior High and to Walter Johnson Senior High School.
		The High School was named after the famous baseball player.
		In high school I focused mainly on academics.
	www.itano.net /wayne/highschool.htm (626 words)

	Living History: Finding Walter Johnson - Baseball Fever
		I finally made the opportunity to visit the Walter Johnson Memorial monument located at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, MD. The monument formerly was located at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. After Griffith was demolished in 1965 the monument was removed and at some point gifted to the school, which opened in 1966.
		Previously upon my arrival at the school, one of the ladies whom I first approached mentioned some documents and articles which were described as "hidden" and others that are locked in a safe at the school.
		Johnson resided in Montgomery County, near Bethesda, which is now situated just inside the Capitol Beltway (I-495) at the northwest quadrant of the loop.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=17854 (2557 words)

	After Grading Shift, Montgomery Still Adjusting (washingtonpost.com)
		The reason was simple: This school year, Walter Johnson became one of two high schools in Montgomery County to begin grading its students using a system that emphasized academic achievement over participation.
		At Walter Johnson, parents were all for meaningful grades, but under the new system, they weren't quite sure what that meant.
		The school had few models to emulate, so teachers, parents and students worked together to fill in the blanks.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac3/ContentServer?pagename=article&articleid=A6001-2005Apr20 (709 words)

	Winner's Bios: 2004 Awards: National Peace Essay Contest: Education: U.S. Institute of Peace
		Her goal is to become either a high school teacher or a college professor.
		In high school she was the group leader for Students For a Free Tibet and Amnesty International.
		She remained on the honor roll throughout high school and has won awards for the highest average in both algebra and art history.
	www.usip.org /ed/npec/dcweek/2004/statebios2.html (2119 words)

	Past Winners Week in D.C.: National Peace Essay Contest: Education: U.S. Institute of Peace
		Ariana is completing her junior year at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, MD. In school, she has been active in debate and forensics and serves as a student representative on the Guidance Advisory Committee.
		Ariela attended Salem High School, where she was captain of the Math and College Bowl teams, Treasurer of the National Honor Society, VP of the Physics team, and a member of the Science and Mock Trial teams.
		Carin is a CIT Scholar and a junior honors student at Kushner Yeshiva High School.
	www.usip.org /ed/npec/dcweek/2001/bios_LA-OK.html (1458 words)

	Walter Johnson Chorus
		This coming Thursday (January 9th) at 7pm, the WJ chorus will be hosting the annual cluster concert in the WJ auditorium featuring the choirs from North Bethesda, and Tilden Middle School in addition to performances by all the WJ choirs.
		The Walter Johnson Chorus is full of many talented young men and women that all share a love for music.
		In the 2004-2005 school year, 12 students participated in the Montgomery County Honors Choirs, and 6 students made the Maryland All-State Junior and Senior Choirs.
	www.wjchorus.com (95 words)

	Valley News Web Story Layout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This fall, she and about a dozen other teachers at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md., launched the EXCEL program, featuring smaller classes and more personalized attention for 145 students smack in the middle of the freshman class academically.
		“With the school getting bigger and bigger, these middle kids were getting more and more lost, and something had to be done to help them,” she said.
		Walter Johnson has about 1,850 students, including about 500 freshmen.
	www.vnews.com /12242002/742211.htm (642 words)

	Marijuana Policy Project seeks high school volunteers
		Swerdlow, who went undefeated during her years on the school's speech team, decided to volunteer at the MPP after a speech she gave on marijuana law reform was criticized by judges, who called the topic inappropriate.
		Kathy McGuire, director for comprehensive pupil services for Montgomery County Public Schools, said the MPP is not on the district's list of approved organizations, which includes such organizations as the Alzheimer's Association, the Anacostia Watershed Society and the Montgomery County public libraries.
		That means a school official and a parent must approve it for each individual student, she said.
	www.mpp.org /news/ap062300.html (742 words)

	Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs: Pentagon Creating Student Database
		Some information on high school students already is given to military recruiters in a separate program under provisions of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.
		School systems that fail to provide that information risk losing federal funds, although individual parents or students can withhold information that would be transferred to the military by their districts.
		John Moriarty, president of the PTA at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, said the issue has "generated a great deal of angst" among many parents participating in an e-mail discussion group.
	www.muhajabah.com /islamicblog/archives/the_clipboard/010671.php (2016 words)

	The Falcon Newspaper - Clubs see growth spurt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		WASHINGTON--Sophomore Robin Wilke, 15, is involved with, by her count, 16 clubs and organizations at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md. And, she said, she isn't just a name on a membership list.
		There are, of course, the high school students who join clubs simply to impress college admissions officers with their busy, interesting, well-rounded lives.
		Rose Jaffe, 17, a senior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, said at her school's fall club fair, up to 60 students signed up for a Peace Project she was heading, but only a few have participated.
	www.thefalcononline.com /story/4856 (812 words)

	Articles: Presentation - "Learning Outside the Lines" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jon was miserable throughout most of elementary school, middle school, and high school and the pain that he endured, as well as the ostracism and negative labels, caused him to contemplate suicide very seriously.
		So much of school is about conformity, but one is not bad or crazy because she or he does things in a different way.
		He missed almost half the school days that year -- and NONE the next year, when he had a really understanding and supportive teacher who tried to capitalize on what Jon could do and liked to do and tried to accommodate Jon's needs and put his arm around Jon when he was trying to read.
	www.ldamc.org /articles/learningoutsidelines.htm (1199 words)

	News & Events - News Releases
		SCHOOL OF MEDICINE'S MOBILE LAB ON DISPLAY AT THE U.S. (Boston, Mass.) — The Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) CityLab MobileLab, a 40-foot, self-contained laboratory on wheels designed to provide students with hands-on experience in various research disciplines, will be on display at the United States Capitol on June 20, 2000.
		MobileLab is an extension of the highly successful CityLab at Boston University School of Medicine, a biotechnology learning laboratory for middle and high school students and their teachers.
		Established in 1873, Boston University School of Medicine is a leading academic and research institution, with an enrollment of nearly 630 students and nearly 1,000 full and part-time faculty members.
	www.bu.edu /phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=272 (342 words)

	Walter Johnson High School - Bethesda, Maryland / MD - school information
		Walter Johnson High School - Bethesda, Maryland / MD - school information
		Where states, school boards and the courts stand on the place of evolution in the science curriculum.
		GreatSchools.net: Elementary, middle and high school information for public, private and charter schools nationwide.
	www.greatschools.net /modperl/browse_school/md/971 (155 words)

	Furman University History Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Edie recently started law school in the evening division at George Mason University, and reports she is actually enjoying the 1L experience.
		Libby and I were blessed with a son, Ian, in May '96." Jeannine Pregler Taylor '91 taught for two years in middle school in North Carolina, married a Furman alum, Greg Taylor '89, in 1993 and moved to Richmond, VA for Greg to do a residency in oral surgery at The Medical College of Virginia.
		Russ Meritt '93 is teaching AP history at the Hammond School in Columbia, S.C. Erin Snyder Shelor '92 is working on her Ph.D. in history at the University of Kentucky.
	history.furman.edu /newsletters/1997.htm (4756 words)

	The Pitch - Walter Johnson High School - Article
		Walter Johnson’s administration enacted a new academic integrity code this school year designed to promote a more academically honest environment.
		According to Assistant Principal Chris Merrill, the policy changes were enacted this year because the committee in charge of school improvement, as well as a group of teachers, realized that it was time to establish a way of both consistently defining plagiarism in addition to regulating actions taken against students caught cheating and plagiarizing.
		Many area high schools, including Bethesda-Chevy Chase and James Hubert Blake High School, mention academic integrity in course syllabi and student handbooks, yet they do not ask students to sign a specified pledge.
	www.my.highschooljournalism.org /md/bethesda/wj/article.cfm?eid=2116&aid=27372 (377 words)

	Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart - Athletics
		School is at Wisconsin Avenue and Woodley Road directly across for the National Cathedral.
		School is ½ mile inside Nebraska Avenue (Tenley Circle) on the left (right if outbound on Wisconsin Avenue.) Lower School Campus: 5100 Edgemore Lane, Bethesda, MD Proceed South on Route 187/Old Georgetown Road toward Bethesda.
		School is located 1 mile inside the Beltway.
	www.stoneridge.org /athletics/athdirections.htm (2004 words)

	Prozac's® Maker Takes Heat for Presentation at High School Depression-Awareness Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Some students and parents at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland are upset that Eli Lilly and Company attended the school's National Depression Awareness Day program and distributed Prozac®-promoting literature (Kathleen Day, "Depression Awareness -- or a Prozac Pitch?" Washington Post, Jan. 18, 1995, p.
		The program at the school was part of National Depression Awareness Day, which is sponsored by the National Depression Screening Day Project.
		At Walter Johnson, thirty students were alerted for possible counseling and their parents contacted.
	www.ndsn.org /feb95/prozac.html (384 words)

	The Pitch - Walter Johnson High School - Article
		“When I got into high school, I knew that my friends were taking risks and driving home from parties after they had been drinking, and no one ever said anything about it, it was just accepted.
		Beginning at 7:30 am on Tuesday, April 12, and continuing throughout the school day, a bell rang ever 15 minutes and a student was pulled out of class by the “Grim Reaper,” played by senior Tim Josey.
		The point was made clear that as high school students, we’re not stupid.
	my.highschooljournalism.org /md/bethesda/wj/article.cfm?eid=3504&aid=48441 (962 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Education World®, the world's best educational resource and search engine on the Internet (named by FamilyPC), is recognizing Walter Johnson High School as the "Cool School of the Week" during the week of January 17, 2000.
		This coveted award is given to school Web sites that best illustrate several qualities: visual appeal, creativity, originality, community involvement and connection, use of technology, value to the students and school, use of curriculum on-line and practical applications in the educational setting.
		All Cool School award winners are also eligible to win the title of "Cool School of the Year." "The students work together as a team to create a great on-line resource that brings together both the school and the community," said Brian Mauck, COO of Education World.
	www.education-world.com /press_center/cs130_pr.txt (622 words)

	Northside High School Quiz Bowl
		The Northside High School team have finished two rounds of the ASCN Tournament of Champions national tournament, and go into the third preliminary round with a 1-1 record.
		The Northside High School Quiz Bowl team is part of the overall academic pride that Northside High School has carried along with itself for 70+ years.
		The school district is predominately of the lower-income area of the city.
	www.ipa.net /~ltjones/quizbowl/qbindex.html (1860 words)

	Alumnus to lead film discussion at Walter Johnson
		Walter Johnson is located at 6400 Rock Spring Drive in Bethesda.
		Parents of prospective Washington Episcopal School students are invited to an open house at 9 a.m.
		Washington Episcopal School is an independent, coeducational day school for more than 300 students in nursery school through grade eight.
	www.gazette.net /stories/092805/bethsch165534_31892.shtml (871 words)

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