One morning this week, not long after the school had reopened, students in the first class learned about vital signs, pulse and blood pressure.
On Wednesday, two days after most of the city's schools reopened, students from several dozen schools too damaged to reopen finally resumed classes, but they were shoehorned into other school buildings, in unfamiliar classrooms after unfamiliar commutes.
At the Pace University campus in Lower Manhattan, the city took the unusual step of closing the main cafeteria altogether for two meal periods last month, touching off a student boycott when it reopened.
The BYU Jerusalem Center, which was closed in 2000 due to student security concerns related to the Second Intifada and, more recently, the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, was reopened to students in the Winter 2007 semester.
A9 Failed Move in Mexico Strike Juan Ramon de la Fuente, the president of the national university in Mexico City, marched to the university campus to appeal to student rebels to reopen the classrooms, in an effort to break the impasse with student strikers who have shut down the university for nine months.
The day the dorm reopened to students, he moved in to live with them.
A week ago, an American soldier was mixing with students at Baghdad University, which reopened on May 17.
It was 1978 and the cultural revolution was over, and the students flocking through its reopened doors included the now celebrated film directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.
Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about problems students encountered as schools reopened after Hurricane Sandy misstated, in some copies, the given name of the governor of New York.
Trying to relieve parents' environmental concerns about schools near the World Trade Center, Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy said yesterday that he would move his office to one of the schools, Stuyvesant High School, when it reopened to students on Tuesday.
