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  • Permission to text? Granted!

    Saturday, March 19, 2011 By: Jacqueline Uranga California High School

    California High School has a strict policy against texting in class, with one exception. For the first time, texting is being used as an educational tool in the classroom.

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  • "Friday" Shows the Worst of YouTube Viral Videos

    Friday, March 18, 2011 By: Ian Scott

    The world is no stranger to overnight YouTube sensations, but none are quite like Rebecca Black and her debut single “Friday”.

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  • Dubstep: The New Experimental Sound To Dance To

    Friday, March 18, 2011 By: Matt Ostovitz

    Dubstep began as an extremely experimental genre of music and it combines driving bass lines, vocal samples, and synth beats to create shadowy songs tinged with breakbeat elements: the resulting song

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  • Kindles and eBooks To Replace Textbooks?

    Tuesday, March 15, 2011 By: Hannah Fakoury

    Many schools across the country have decided to stop using real books and started using eBooks and Kindles. Students have found these devices easier to use since they work a lot similarly to texting.

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  • Fairytales Come True with the Help of Local Program

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Jessica Freeman

    Everyone knows, Cinderella had a fairy godmother to help her with her dress for the ball, but real life is no fairy tale. So without a fairy godmother on her side, how can a girl attend the ball in st

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  • All middle schoolers to receive iPads next year

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Ian Cardle

    The Board of Trustees will expand the sixth-grade iPad program to the rest of the middle school next year, incorporating iPads into the whole middle-school curriculum.

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  • Teen Education Programs Cut at Federal Level

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Emily Mulvihill

    The roar and energy of 700 excited high school students is a sensation that someone cannot shake from memory easily. What will the future of teen education programs like this be?

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  • KM under construction

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Chris Wright

    KM's been very patient, but we have to ask: just when will we get our new gym?

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  • Kare4Kody

    Monday, March 14, 2011 By: Jeff Woodward

    Imagine hearing that a younger sibling only has one more year to live. This is not just in the imagination of junior Kevin Stoginski, it is a reality. On December 16, 2010, Kevin’s 9 year old brother

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  • Cheating is Never Proper: Cheating Leaves Students Uninformed and Lost in Class

    Sunday, March 13, 2011 By: Briana Weaver

    Ever heard of that old saying “Winners never cheat and cheaters never win?” The same thing applies to students who cheat in school because at the end of the day, they’re cheating themselves. On the fi

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Issue Date: Monday, March 21, 2011 Issue: Week of March 21, 2011
 
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News
iPads for everyone! Sacramento Country Day's expansion of its sixth-grade technology effort will put the popular computer into the hands of all middle-schoolers next year.
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Students who think they're clever in using their smartphones to cheat may find well-prepared Country Day teachers are just a little smarter.
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Budget-cutters in Washington may jeopardize the TRIO program, which provides education opportunities for disadvantaged students hoping to attend college. A recent TRIO conference laid out the possibli
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Features
What's the difference between 'vintage' and 'thrift' clothing? You might not be able to tell when they're worn by trendy fashion mavens donning this second-hand attire.
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Enter the New World, students. Here you will not see dog-eared pages and broken bindings of earlier texts and earlier times. Rather, witness the wondrous machines that can take you anywhere and everyw
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Roseville students may know David Ray as the ultimate math teacher, but once upon a time, he ruled the California's racquetball courts.
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Devastation or miracle. Those are the likelihoods for Kody Stoginski, as he faces a battle with brain cancer. His older brother, Kevin, is with him every step.
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Many girls who wouldn't attend prom otherwise get there in Cinderella style, courtesy of 'The Priceless Prom' program.' And no worries, either, about clocks striking midnight and pumpkin carriages.
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Opinion
Face it, your parents may be addicted to School Loop
Are the benefits of programs that allow parents to monitor their kids' school work as great as the drawbacks? Students and even some teachers may not think so.
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The Supreme Court's ruling favoring the Westboro Baptist Church's right to slur slain soldiers and their loved ones stretches beyond common sense. Hate groups should not have speech rights.
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