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School Year

Meet the students of Cape Town's Centre of Science and Technology (COSAT), a magnet school that serves the low-income township of Khayelitsha. We’re profiling their challenges and successes over an entire year.
SiveAnders
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Three lessons from my year reporting on a South African high school
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School Year Blog: South African high school students learn radio reporting
Bahle
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When graduating from high school, even top students need guidance
Sive (SEE-vay), a South African high school student, enjoys his new couch.
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A South African teen receives an unexpected gift from America
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Video: Learning to Succeed
Sugar Daddies Animated Film
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This is why South African schoolgirls say ‘yes’ to sex with sugar daddies
Cooper
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Meet the woman behind a South African high school’s success
Somila and Bayanda are students at COSAT, a Cape Town high school
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South African teens — those ‘born free’ — talk about Mandela
COSAT student
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School Year Blog: What do South African kids know about JFK?
NASA scientist speaks at COSAT
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School Year Blog: South African students meet a NASA scientist
COSAT student
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School Year Blog: What do South African kids think it’s like in America?
Students at COSAT shave each other's heads
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School Year: A dress code to keep the ‘gangsters’ away
Ninth grade COSAT students work on a problem in math class.
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School Year Blog: Why This Series?
Sapang, a tenth grader, is taking physics for the first time.
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School Year Blog: It’s Like You Are Dying When You Are Doing Physics
Opening ceremony at COSAT
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School Year Blog: You Guys Just Maxed Out My Microphone With That Crazy Screaming
Three seniors perform a song at COSAT.
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School Year Blog: Students celebrate Senior Day with musical performances
Two seniors at COSAT
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School Year Blog: For low-income students, life after high school can be daunting
COSAT students sing national anthem.
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Can you create a national anthem from a mashup? Here’s why South Africa did it
School Year Blog: Watch this eighth-grader do math ridiculously fast
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School Year Blog: Watch this eighth-grader do ridiculously fast math
School Year Blog: Why South African students are afraid to cut class
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School Year Blog: Why South African students are afraid to cut class
School Year Blog: I tried to give fashion advice to a South African teenager and this is what happened
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School Year Blog: I tried to give fashion advice to a South African teenager and this is what happened
Students at COSAT.
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These South African girls are inspired by Malala, even without a Nobel Prize
Tandie chats with The World's audience on Facebook.
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South African teen explains what it’s like to be kind of famous in America
Seniors pose at the COSAT prom
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School Year Blog: Crashing the ultimate fashion show, a South African prom
Tandie all dressed up for the prom.
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From the shacks to the prom, a South African girl’s night of glamour
Siyathemba, a junior at COSAT, delivers a speech during student council elections.
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COSAT students tell hard truths to win votes
Sive wears a hat to symbolize his transition to manhood.
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School Year Blog: An Update on Sive, the COSAT Student Who Lost His Mother
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Backpacks as Canvas for Self Expression for COSAT Students
Should South African High Schools Distribute Free Condoms?
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School Year Blog: Should South African High Schools Distribute Free Condoms?
Students at COSAT
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School Year Blog: Are South African Schools ‘Just Pushing Black Students Through The System’?
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Mrs. Lovett’s Colorful Math Classroom
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In South Africa, funny hats mark boys’ circumcision, transition to manhood
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No Excuses, Just Success: The School Year Begins
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The Trials of Teaching: Fighting Burnout in the Classroom
Picking Up Trash for Madiba
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School Year Blog: Picking Up Trash for Madiba
How Many Teachers (and Toilets) is Enough?
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School Year Blog: How Many Teachers (and Toilets) is Enough?
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Keeping up in Class: Students, School Face Growing Pains
What Does It Take to Change South Africa's Schools?
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School Year Blog: What Does It Take To Change South Africa’s Schools? Ask High School Students.
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Man of the House: A Tale of Growing Up Fast
Are Standardized Tests Blocking Poor Students from Top Universities?
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School Year Blog: Are Standardized Tests Blocking Poor Students from Top Universities?
What’s Keeping Students Up At Night?
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School Year Blog: What’s Keeping Students Up At Night?
Corporal Punishment in South Africa
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School Year Blog: The Boy Who Lost His Eye During a School Beating
COSAT Student
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School Year Blog: The Lesson Can Wait; It’s Time for the Speeches
Seniors at COSAT
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School Year Blog: Real Men Get Circumcised, Then Wear Hilarious Hats
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School Year Blog: Six Things that South African Teenagers Learn in China
Math teacher at COSAT
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School Year Blog: Are You Smarter Than a COSAT Tenth-Grader?
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Lukhanyo’s Journey: The Hazards of Getting to School
Thoko Matosi
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School Year Blog: You Never Know What Problems These Kids Are Dealing With
Mrs. Booi, a Xhosa teacher at COSAT, leads the school in prayer.
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School Year Blog: Does Prayer Belong in South Africa’s Public Schools?
Sisipho (center) and her friends show how much money they've made selling sandwiches.
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School Year Blog: Making Sandwiches to Help Disabled Children
Bridgit, a junior at COSAT, and some of her classmates read books on their cell phones.
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School Year Blog: The Cell Phone Revolution Continues, One Zombie Book at a Time
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School Year Blog: Is a Mob of Angry Teachers Going to Barge into COSAT?
A burning truck blocks the road near Khayelitsha township.
Business, Economics and Jobs
School Year Blog: Toilet Truck on Fire in the Road: A Useful Tactic? Discuss.
Ninth-graders Olwethu and Sisipho with a message from Huilen.
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School Year Blog: Why Vampire Books Are So Popular Here (Plus: Students Get a Message From a Real-Life Vampire)
The #SchoolYear Twitter account
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School Year Blog: Our Guest Teacher Tweeters
Sibonisiwe, Asiphe, and Anda won a reading contest.
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School Year Blog: Why Some COSAT Students Aren’t Interested in Xhosa, Their Own Language
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Making Peace at Home: A Mother and Daughter’s Story
Khayelitsha township
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School Year Blog: Khayelitsha’s Code of Vigilante Justice
Sive, an eleventh-grader, holds up his US travel visa.
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School Year Blog: I’m Not Actually Nervous — But, Yes, I’m a Little Nervous
COSAT's principal, Phadiela Cooper
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School Year Blog: What Happened to the Report Cards?