The achievements have resulted in the school receiving a number of prestigious awards, including the Breakthrough School Award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the MetLife Foundation, and the designation of an Exemplary Middle School by the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators.

WHITEHOUSE: Providing Services for Success

However pure his motives, traditional his ultimate values or exemplary his professed commitment to old-school American painting, Eric Fischl is destined to be ever cast as American art's oldest living bad boy.

WSJ: Book Review: Bad Boy

At his elementary school, where his behavior was exemplary and his assignments completed and his progress charted at the medial apex of all relevant curves, the boy was, among his classmates, the sort of marginal social figure who was so marginal he was not even teased.

NEWYORKER: Backbone