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...

In recent years, college acceptance rates across the nation have been dropping. As a result, students are spending more of their youth trying to ensure their position at a prestigious university. Even...

I am a senior in high school, so throughout my educational career I have taken many standardized tests. Most students just receive their scores after they take a test but they are not able to do any actual...

On Jan. 6, 2020, a group of extremists violently broke into the U.S. Capitol. On March 30, 2024, a group of pro-Palestinian supporters violently occupied Hamilton Hall in Columbia University. It is hard...

Many of my peers may agree that their parents and grandparents constantly berate them for being oblivious to struggle and unable to see past the tip of their noise, or more realistically for phone. To...

COVID-19 is not the only epidemic that has spread across the U.S. Fentanyl is a dangerous drug that is far more potent than regular opioids, which are used to treat pain. Dealers put it in other drugs,...