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The 2014-15 school year at Passages is now well underway.  Pardon our absence over the summer and last month while we regrouped.  We ar...

It is with heavy hearts that we will say farewell today to two of our co-editors, Anja Kennedy and Regan Schwartz.  Anja co-founded this bl...

We are excited that our teammate, and fellow What’s Good? blogger, Claudio Leon , is traveling today to San Diego to accept the Association...

Have you ever stopped to wonder why our cereals are all fortified with niacin and other vitamins and minerals?  The answer is rooted in a...

When the Illuminati (Iron Man, Namor, Mr. Fantastic, Black Bolt, Professor X and Dr. Strange) decided to send the Hulk into deep space, ...

This rectangular pictorial seeks to bring immediate attention to the plight of the earth and its peoples through 365 fascinating and gor...

I cannot begin to tell you how many times students have asked me for books about card tricks.  Magic Card Tricks features a range of ...

What is your favorite kind of cereal?   The Great American Cereal Book documents this quintessentially American invention from its ve...

Passages Academy began 2015 under the guidance of a new principal and as we begin to wrap up this academic year, she graciously carved a bit...

In honor of Earth Day and National Poetry Month, my students and I watched rapper/activist Prince Ea perform his spoken-word poem “ Why I T...

A reader interested in starting his or her own business need look no further than Start It Up . The book is a step by step guide on how...

Sixteen year old Kamala is having an identity crisis.  Born and raised in Jersey City in a Pakistani family, she’s beginning to feel li...

In the future, robots and humans have fought many wars together and now live, relatively peaceably, side-by-side.  International robot la...

After losing their bodies in an alchemy experiment gone wrong, Edward and Alphonse Elric set out on a journey for the only item that can ...

So how does homeopathy work? Wait, does homeopathy work? What is the difference between straight and reform chiropractic?  Is fracking...

Hi there.  We've been busier than usual with poetry programming and free comic book day-- pictures coming soon!  We've been meaning ...

Tomorrow, April 24th, Passages Academy Libraries will host the fourth annual School Libraries Serving Incarcerated and Detained Youth UnC...

Where to write?  Use paper or go digital… or keep it all in your head?  Make your own beats or collaborate with a producer?  How to ...

Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers poems by Frank X. Walker This slim volume of accessible poems packs a profusion of pot...

This haunting and thought-provoking collection of sonnets is both an elegy for Emmett Till and a call to action.  Nelson urges the read...