Megan Woolhouse

Feb 10, 2025 | wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse

February 10, 2025 It’s a Monday at 9 a.m., and it’s safe to say that most boys in America are not rehearsing a German opera. But that’s exactly what’s happening at St. Paul’s Choir School in Cambridge. About 30 fidgety boys — some as young as 10 — flank music director Brandon Straub at the piano. They’re rehearsing Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt,” meaning “The Dead City,” as they prepare for a performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Lyric Opera.

Jan 24, 2025 | wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse

January 24, 2025 Schools are wrestling with how to manage students and their cellphones — devices that can aid student learning or distract from it, and at their worst, provoke violence. Students have recorded video of fights breaking out at Brockton High School and lunchroom brawls in Revere, posting them on social media to gain popularity or antagonize an enemy.

Jan 16, 2025 | wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse

January 16, 2025 About one-third of Massachusetts K-12 parents are concerned with their child’s math progress in school this year, a new poll finds. Only about half said their child is doing well in mathematics, while one in three said their child is just “doing OK,” according to a survey of parents by the EdTrust and MassINC Polling Group .

Nov 5, 2024 | wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse

November 05, 2024 Waiting for a Forest Hills train, Micah Levine said her election stress this year is high, “like an 8 or 9” on a scale of 10. To cope, she said she voted early and cut back on her news intake. “A lot of what I’m doing is just kind of trying to engage with hobbies that I liked, so that I can reset my brain a little bit,” she said.

Jun 24, 2024 | wgbh.org | Meg Woolhouse |Megan Woolhouse

It’s 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday and 17-year-old Maura Barrada sits on an idling bus in her high school’s parking lot — nervous, sleepless and adrenalized. The big day is finally here: the regional Aerospace Robotics Competition in New Hampshire. Maura and her senior teammates at Brockton High School — Mya Evans, Lizberte Celestin and Amieya Cudjoe — have logged hundreds of hours together building and flying their drones since October, when the competition began.