For the past month, cars have lined up outside of California’s beloved Yosemite National Park, spending hours barely inching forward. This has become the new reality following the recent budget cuts...

Is our society getting dumber? We can’t be getting dumber if grades are increasing, right? No, the grade inflation occurring the past few decades awards higher grades for the same amount, or in some...

Extra Credit Ethically Help Charities Underprivileged people struggle, and, out of the goodness of their hearts, many selfless individuals donate to charities to help them. Unable to rely on such selflessness,...

Most Rio students are familiar with GoGuardian: a software that allows teachers to monitor students’ activity online when in the classroom. While primarily used to keep students on task and prevent cheating,...

This morning, I woke up to my alarm ringing. I turned it off and went back to sleep. I could have woken up and gone about my day, but I exercised my free will and ignored the alarm. Though there are deterministic...

As California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for schools to restrict cell phone use in classrooms, many students wonder how these bans will affect their daily lives.  As more and more California school...

California voters have a strong recent track record with public education. Voters just passed Prop 2, a hefty facilities bond to repair aging schools, and two years ago, they approved Prop 28, which directs...

Textbooks can be helpful, but let's be real, they can also be boring. Sitting and reading out of a book daily for the entire class period doesn't help most students learn. Teachers should focus more on...

If you’ve been in the boys' bathrooms at Rio Americano High School, you know they’re not exactly the most private places on campus. From broken stall locks to a lack of spacers between urinals, these...

A staple experience in every teenager's life is getting their first job. The summer going into my junior year was spent daily on a pool deck, carefully surveying the water in hopes of preventing medical...

Four books, two true-crime documentaries and a 16-month prison stay later, Rick Singer, the mastermind behind the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, is back to counseling elite-university...

More gunshots sound in the sky, and America’s citizens turn a blind eye. This is the reality that we face today. Our youth are suffering from the terror and trauma that affects our nation and, more specifically,...