Every February, students returning in the fall are tasked with choosing five to eight of the hundreds of courses offered. In doing so, students interested in the humanities may find their interests continually neglected by science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) culture—an imbalance...

I am a sentimental person. Maybe it’s my Cancer sun, maybe I’ve miraculously become one with my emotions or maybe I’m just a romantic, but when I walk down University Avenue, taking in the storefronts and reminiscing on the superstitions of the rug factories, I often get swept up in the niceness...

This opinion piece on our middle school mathematics program is written by two PAUSD parents, Edith Cohen and Allyson Rosen. Superintendent Dr. Don Austin recently initiated a revisit of our middle school mathematics program amid concerns with our program’s effectiveness in supporting the...

For decades, Silicon Valley has been universally recognized as the heart of technology and innovation. The establishment of a booming tech industry has cultivated a culture that has distinguished the South Bay from its surrounding counties and drawn the attention of those around the world. Media coverage...

Written by Anyi Cheng There is just something that screams “science” about living in a place called Silicon Valley. Stationed in a city only a few miles away from big-brand tech companies like Oracle, Tesla and Apple, it comes as no surprise that Gunn is inordinately science, technology,...