Although school will not reopen until next fall, and the Academic Center is closed, students can take advantage of this resource once it reopens in August.
With any class, especially those with higher standards, it’s easy to fall behind. The teachers, often with hundreds of students to attend to...
Jessica Zang, Features Editor and Assistant Business Manager
• April 4, 2020
Although school will not reopen until next fall, and the Academic Center is closed, students can take advantage of this resource once it reopens in August.
If any students are struggling in their classes, they may find it hard to reserve time with their teachers during FLEX for one-on-one learning....
Mia Knezevic, Forum Editor, Photo Editor and Oracle-SEC Liaison
• March 31, 2020
On Friday, March 6, a Greene Middle School student was killed in a bicycle accident near California avenue, raising concerns from Palo Alto residents about the measures the city was taking for bike safety. The accident, which occurred at 7:40pm, happened after the 11-year-old student, who was biking...
In the diverse community of Palo Alto, where girls are encouraged to go into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) professions, it can feel as if schools have all but erased internal biases. This false assumption, which fails to take into account real-life experiences of girls in the district,...
Amid the global anxiety caused by the spread of COVID-19, fear of the virus generates a racial phobia against Chinese-Americans. According to the World Health Organization, xenophobia has continued unabated, as anecdotal reports of racism and xenophobia have risen exponentially since the outbreak.
Historically,...
In times of crisis, it can be rewarding to turn to history as a learning tool, helping to both avoid past mistakes and replicate past successes. As panic in response to COVID-19, a pandemic that recently caused the shutdown of all Palo Alto Unified School District schools till April 13, rises, this...
Responses have been lightly edited for clarity.
Gunn Oracle: What primarily will drive your decision to resume school on April 13?
Superintendent Don Austin: At this point, we're taking opening and not opening orders from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department and the governor of the...
One of the most common questions among students after hearing about our month long break from school due to the coronavirus was “what will I do to pass the time?” For some, a month without school and extensive socializing may pose as a nightmare, lonely and boring. However, despite the serious circumstances,...
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Monday, March 16, 1:40p.m
Following the closure of Santa Clara County public schools on Friday, Bay Area health and administration...
In 1989, no one knew if the Academy would (or even could) do the right thing with Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing.” Chronicling a sweltering summer day in 1989 in a racially diverse Brooklyn neighborhood, the film struck chords with everyone who saw it—and with many who didn’t.
Ambitious...
Dave Deggeller, Instructional Lead of Mathematics
• December 20, 2019
Hey y’all, what’s the math rush?
I enjoyed reading the full page math spread in the Forum Section of The Oracle on Friday, Dec. 6. I was happy to hear that our existing math infrastructure in Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) served the two student authors, Ms. Suzani (who accelerated...
