From The Lowell Gallery
Italian Students from Parma at the Italian-American Museum in San Francisco
From: Current News |
|
Remember when life was simpler, way back in the 90s? Remember when there were no college essays, Advanced Placement classes, theorems or mods to worry about and only about 151 different Pokémon to account for? Well, I do. I also remember the steady decline of the quality of what was for many, myself included, the backbone of our childhood.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Most seniors breathed a sigh of relief after turning in their University of California college applications in late November.
But this was not the case for seniors Hilary Fung and Marcy Silver, who still had to complete a rigorous audition process for the UC-Los Angeles World Arts and Culture program on Feb. 1.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Twenty-five parents and community members followed students for a day during Lowell’s annual "Student for a Day" program, hosted by the Parent Teacher Student Association on Feb. 27.
"Unlike Back-to-school Night, where parents only see the hallways, classrooms and some teachers but do not see the students in action, (the event) helps parents really see what it’s like at Lowell. It’s like being a fly on a wall for a day,” PTSA member and "Student for a Day" coordinator Chandler Moore said.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Most investors agree that buying low and selling high is a good strategy in investing in the stock market, but this strategy doesn’t always work. Students now have a chance to test it out.
Kristin Lubenow and Michael Conley’s Advanced Placement Economics classes get a chance to experience the risks and rewards in speculating in the stock market through an online 16-week Stock Market Game (www.stocksquest.com). The teachers provide each student and a partner $100,000 worth of virtual money to start their stock portfolio.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
By March 15, the district distributed 535 pink slips to faculty members district-wide who may be laid off next year due to impending budget cuts.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
The new policy requiring students to stay with the same Advanced Placement teachers for the entire year in certain courses went smoothly during the self-scheduling process on Friday, Jan. 18.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Three days before the big vacation to Europe and the whole family has been struck down with a virus. Fortunately, lo and behold, there in the medicine cabinet is just the solution: half a bottle of man’s modern miracle of antibiotics. It’s leftover from and old prescription, so it might not be the right dosage, but no harm done, right?
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Schools throughout the state may have to scale down staff and services after governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a $4.8 billion educational budget cut as a part of a series of cuts aimed at bringing the state out of a projected $14.5 billion deficit.
|
|
Read more...
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Old-school nerds and new-school geeks are bridging the gap between literature and technology. From online encyclopedias to e-books, digitization is transforming America’s reading habits.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
A chemistry teacher is posting on craigslist.org in an attempt to find a new home for her albino corn snake, which became too big for her cage at school.
The snake, Ally, is currently being kept at chemistry teacher Michelle Trimble's home after the administration asked Trimble to remove her from school grounds because she escaped from her cage in Room 337 in September.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
On Feb. 4, oil prices rose sharply to $91 a barrel after dense fog prevented ships from entering the Houston Ship Channel, the busiest U.S. oil port. Earlier in January, prices hit over $100 a barrel when militant violence in Nigeria disrupted the country’s exports. Such incidents are not unusual.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
The JV girls’ basketball team never goes down without a fight. No matter how hard the girls fall, they will always get back up.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Swimming classes are available again for students who need to fulfill the graduation requirement but at a new location that causes issues with transportation and safety.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
| |
to listen.