East Palo Alto parents plan to petition the county to open a new charter school after recent testing showed many students in the city’s Ravenswood School District are not meeting achievement standards.
For East Palo Alto students, high school graduation rates have historically hovered around 50 percent. But a small program launched in June is making a difference — and the results are noticeable.
Now at the end of its first academic year, BASIS Independent Silicon Valley is providing a science and math focus for middle and high school students in a region where many parents work in STEM fields.
Palo Alto’s Board of Education has been rapidly implementing changes to decrease student stress at Gunn High School but is facing widespread discontent from students and teachers who feel left out of the decision process.
Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli was featured as the concluding speaker for a Stanford course and public lecture series on “Race, Policing and Mass Incarceration.”
Born in East Palo Alto, Ambition Spotlight is a networking website that helps young people with different passions highlight their work.
No one likes or wants to be called “bossy.” But a local foundation, BAWSI (Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative) — pronounced “bossy” — is giving the word a whole new meaning.
The Stanford community filled Memorial Church April 20 to attend 2015’s “Harry’s Last Lecture on a Meaningful Life,” delivered by influential media leader and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula is providing local, low-income youth with tools they need to succeed in and out of the classroom.
Both the California Academy of Sciences and the Exploratorium in San Francisco allow people to interact with science in unconventional forms on Thursdays.
Student vaccination rates and records have been in the news for months, but important data is missing from the statistics: that of teachers and administrators who are around children.
More than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years, according to government data.
