Wualter Lopez wears the calluses on his hands like the medals on the chest of an Olympic athlete. Each one has its own story, texture, and shade. His hands are not that of...

Writers Note: In order to write about all of these vulnerable experiences I focused on interviewing first-generation students of color at San Rafael High School who are all...

In high school, students take the classes required to graduate, such as math, English, science, and history. With their remaining periods, they can choose electives to take,...

Back home they called him Patita, nicknamed after his father.  As he grew older, Norman Tellez Guadamuz became known as Pata, meaning foot because of his skills with the...

Congratulations! We look forward to reviewing your application. This message is familiar to the high school seniors who have spent the last semester applying to college....

Climate change is like an out of control fire, it only gets worse the longer it’s left alone. For so long, our society has fueled the deterioration of the planet, whether...

“When playing music, the brain actually grows in certain areas - the corpus callosum is bigger in musicians than in non-musicians,” says Mr. Burdick, the band director...

“See what she did there?” My teacher’s words stop me in my tracks. I forget the problem I was solving on the whiteboard, feeling a familiar shame. I came out as transgender...

It’s a familiar scene at Canal Alliance’s University Prep program. As some students work tirelessly on their homework, Miriam Amador is giving life advice to others. Some...

When I met with Kevin McSorley to take a picture for this article, I asked him, “Do you want to take the photo in front of the white board?” He responded, “I don’t...