College Summit piques student interest in leadership: Summer program trains inner-city youth to be college prep leaders [ArticleImageHyperLink] [ArticleMedia] Sunday, October 07, 2007 By Sergio Toscano & Sindy Orozco The four-day College Summit that Bay Area student attended was part of a nationwide program that helps to influences high school students to not only enroll in college, but to have all the resources n full story >

Forget comparisons; do what's best for you: There's always someone smarter, thinner, fatter [ArticleImageHyperLink] [ArticleMedia] Sunday, October 07, 2007 By Jessica Tabares When my friends say they’re fat, as consolation I say there’s always someone fatter.I convince them that technically they’re not fat. But now that I think about it, instead of a consolation, these typ full story >

Test scores up but pressure to improve lingers: All four Fremont Federation schools raised APIs [ArticleImageHyperLink] [ArticleMedia] Sunday, October 07, 2007 By Aiden Gray & Nerisha Carminer All four schools at Fremont Fed¬eration made significant improve¬ment on the Academic Performance Index, but three of them did not meet all of the state requirements to keep them out of possible troub full story >

Teens who text, use cell phone while driving will be fined: New state law takes effect July 1 [ArticleImageHyperLink] [ArticleMedia] Saturday, October 06, 2007 By Celeste Lee Many teens from Fremont Federation are cool with a new law that takes away some of their phone privileges. full story >

Why they be trippin on our English?: Ronald and Branisha battle it out [ArticleImageHyperLink] [ArticleMedia] Saturday, October 06, 2007 By Ronald Johnson & Branisha Davis When teachers announced in August that they would insist Media Academy students speak "Academic English" and leave their slang outside, some people in our journalism class started “talk'n bout how boo full story >

Many students turned off by "code switch": Teachers start 'Academic English Only' campaign [ArticleImageHyperLink] [ArticleMedia] Saturday, October 06, 2007 By Christina Geovany Students resist the attempts by teachers to get them to code-switch from "street language," "slang," or "home language" to "Academic English" in the classroom. full story >