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May 3, 2012
Whether the movies are in the theaters now, on DVD or still highly anticipated, you’ll find out what a set of Oaktown Teen Times writers from Oakland High, East Oakland School of the Arts and Media Academy think about them in these short outtakes below. They have your pocketbook in mind as they...
May 3, 2012 • CHRISTIAN HERNANDEZ, Oakland Unity High
Before deadmau5, David Guetta and LMFAO, there were many pioneers of the electronic music scene. Does anyone of the 2012 generation know exactly where and when this scene came from? Much of it originated from Detroit in the 1980s. The Detroit-based group Octave One just released its latest album, “Revisited...
May 3, 2012 • LISA BOYAKINS, McClymonds High School
It’s the talk at McClymonds High School: a 17-year-old shot and killed on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., while wearing a hoodie and returning home from the store with Skittles and an iced tea. Many students said, “That could have been me.” In the weeks following Trayvon Martin’s death, McClymonds...
May 3, 2012
In Haiti, education is not as easily accessible to youth as it is in the United States. While some Haitian parents can afford to pay motorcycle drivers to transport their kids to school, less fortunate students have to walk miles to attend, and a significant number of children simply cannot go. Determined...
December 14, 2011 • Jorray Hart & Caleb Smith
Many teachers across Oakland have been pre-occupied this semester with creating lessons based on a local story that went worldwide — Occupy Oakland. Occupy Oakland is part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Participants argue that too much of the power and wealth in America is held by just 1 percent...
June 3, 2011 • Reese Brown, Media Academy
A group of students at Media Academy in Oakland has been earning some green for working — and learning — in the school garden. The six students meet after school on Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. to plant, water and maintain the garden. The program is taught by Matthew Green, a former journalism...
June 1, 2011 • KIM MEJIA-CUELLAR, CESAR SANCHEZ, Oaktown Teen Times
Oakland students won honors, listened to prominent journalists and learned the ins and outs of writing and editing at the National Scholastic Press Association high school journalism convention in Anaheim, Calif. Students from Media Academy at the Fremont Federation of High Schools, and the East Oakland...
December 8, 2010 • Juan Ramos & Jazmin Garcia, Media Academy
Karla Coronel spent 32 out of 55 minutes for lunch standing in line to receive a slice of pizza and bag of chips in the first weeks of school. “It’s a waste of my time that I could have been eating,” said Coronel, a sophomore at Mandela Academy. The wait for food in the cafeteria at...
November 13, 2010 • Kim Mejia-Cuellar, Media Academy
“Waiting for Superman” is an interesting, yet alarming documentary, portraying the hardships and failings of America’s public educational system. It accurately points out the many restraints educators and administrators alike must face in order to create effective change within the system. That...
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