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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 3, 2011 • Mindy Nguyen, Oakland High
Imagine walking through the campus of Oakland High School. As you pass by the parking lot, you begin to feel curious about what lies beyond the portable classrooms. Glancing to your left, you are disappointed by the sight of a trashed school garden, and a picket sign that reads, “parking lot under...
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...
April 26, 2011
Do you have a recipe for a vegetable quiche that will make someone drool? Are you great at whipping up smoothies using fruit from your school garden? Have you figured out what to do with all that kale you planted last fall? Then please consider contributing to the first-ever Oakland School Garden Cookbook,...
March 8, 2011 • Staff report
Is bigger really better? That’s what students, teachers and staff are asking after news that the Oakland Unified School District will combine small schools on the Castlemont and Fremont campuses into two big high schools in the fall of 2012. Next year’s seniors will be the last to graduate from Leadership...
March 8, 2011 • Linda Poeng, Media Academy
Tony Srimoukda can barely focus in his second period class. Trying to pay attention in Advanced Placement U.S. History is difficult because the Media Academy junior is too preoccupied with his rumbling stomach, a stomach demanding something to eat. Srimoukda skipped out on the free breakfast...
March 1, 2011 • Staff report, East Oakland School of the Arts
A spike in teen homicides over the last 12 months, many of them in East Oakland, has struck fear as well as sorrow into students’ hearts. At the Fremont Federation of High Schools, the campus motto — “The Friendly School” — contrasts with the sadness many students are feeling after...
December 10, 2010 • JUAN CARLOS RAMOS, Media Academy
“Violence is the goal of cowards,” Rigoberta Menchu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, told a sold-out Oakland audience that included gang-affiliated youth. “They don’t know how to resolve problems any other way, so they use fists.” Menchu, a Guatemalan activist for indigenous people, spoke on Nov....
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...
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