December 14, 2011
The Oaktown Teen Times is proud to announce Silvia Cardona-Tapia as its first contributor of the issue for the 2011-12 school year. Cardona-Tapia, 16, a 10th grader, is a second-year member of McClymonds’ online student news site, macksmack. She also plays JV volleyball and does the statistics...
December 14, 2011 • AEGIS STAFF, Oakland High
Just hours after Oakland High students evacuated to the field as part of a statewide earthquake drill, two earthquakes shook the East Bay. At 2:41 p.m. on Oct. 20, a 4.0 magnitude quake centered near the University of California, Berkeley rumbled through the Oakland High campus. A 3.8 quake would follow...
December 14, 2011 • ERIC GANT, McClymonds High
They took a survey on how fights and bullying affect learning. They wore stickers that read “Watch my back.” And they painted “48%” on their faces to remind themselves that only 48 percent of African Americans and Latinos graduate high school in Oakland. These were some of the “actions”...
December 14, 2011 • STEPHEN VANCE, McClymonds High
The greening of West Oakland would require less cement, more parks and even ponds stocked with fish. It would need more foot traffic and public transportation. And most of all, it would take more mixed-income housing and retail. Those ideas were part of a blueprint for West Oakland that 13 Oakland students...
December 13, 2011
Skyline Oracle reporter Norris Cooper asked a former teenage mother who was pregnant at 15 to answer some questions about her experiences. The mother, now 38, graduated from Oakland Tech and still lives in Oakland today. What were your initial thoughts when you discovered you were pregnant? I would...
December 12, 2011
A few months ago my mom was forgetting things most people would remember. Then she collapsed outside the Raley’s in Benicia. My grandmother took her to the hospital, and doctors sent her to another one, in Sacramento. There, she was diagnosed with a one-inch tumor in the middle of her brain. My grandmother...
July 14, 2011
Steven Phan, a design and layout editor for the Aegis, the student newspaper of Oakland High School, produced the ad that appears below as an example of how students can work with local advertisers to create ads. OHigh students hope to get more ads from local “green” businesses to support...
July 14, 2011
Journalism students at Oakland High School compiled a list of potential advertisers and donors who they plan to approach next year to support their school garden. The spreadsheet below is a work in progress, and reflects the work of several students on the staff of the Aegis, Oakland High’s student...
July 14, 2011
A slideshow produced by students on the Aegis, Oakland High School’s newspaper, shows the many ways in which the school’s modest garden — about the size of a small classroom — goes beyond its boundaries, teaching students about everything from how to understand the process of photosynthesis,...
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