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Rachel Swinehart, 18, has commandeered her family’s living room in Cedar Rapids Iowa, filling it with large, plastic tubs containing stuff like pink bedding and a coffee maker. She’s about to head off to Shenandoah College, a small arts school in Virginia. In many ways, organizing her stuff is the easy part. Talking about the risks of college life — that’s a bit harder.
I went out looking for teens in an unscientific search to see if they are hanging out at the mall. I didn’t have much luck.
My high school football team has been limiting full contact practices for years, even before the state changed the rules. Instead of actually tackling during practice, we get in tackling lines to work on our form, but all we tackle is air.
Discipline, dedication, and even maturity — these are only some of the valuable lessons that Berkeley High junior Luis Buendía has learned by taking up boxing.
Whenever I play Bach at the BART station, I get thrown a few dollars. But as soon as I start playing Adele, the money starts to roll in.
On a summer day in San Francisco, Calif., around 35 students find themselves in a crowded Balboa High School classroom. The summer school program is five weeks long, and each class is two and a half hours. The goal is to make up a year’s worth of math or English.
Schools, community organizations, and policymakers alike are working to generate cross-cultural dialogue throughout the city by promoting ethnic studies in high schools.
I get decent grades, but my poor study habits made success in AP Chemistry impossible. The only way I could graduate was to pass summer school, somewhere I never thought I’d be.
Students in a classroom pick up their chairs and move them into a circle. As they settle down, the teacher, Jorge López, asks bluntly, “What is sucking the life out of you?” One by one, the students begin sharing their stories.
