The Gabriella Foundation was founded twenty years ago to honor Gabriella Axelrad, who loved to dance. Unfortunately, Gabriella passed away in an biking accident in Grand Teton National Park while on a biking trip with her family in 1999. A report in the Los Angeles Times after the incident stated, “A van appears….
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Slay the Spire: Review
Slay the Spire, a deck-building, roguelike dungeon crawler, is perhaps one of the best games to have come out in recent years. It is a deck-building game in the sense that the construction of a deck of attack and skill cards is the main focus of gameplay. However, unlike other deck-building games like Hearthstone or…
[Editor’s Column]IB in Korean Schools
IB (International Baccalaureate) is “a program that focuses on teaching students to think critically and independently, and how to inquire with care and logic” and more than 4,000 schools have chosen to teach International Baccalaureate programs worldwide. As an English-based curriculum with a direct focus on making students better learners and people, IB is…
Unofficial Holiday: April Fool’s
When we think about the most unexpected, unofficial holiday, it’s probably April 1. Also known as April Fool’s Day, it is a holiday of pranks and humiliations, where people pull pranks on each other for fun. It seems the day is one of the most light-hearted ones in the year, but where did it…
[JJSR Highlights]Opinion:Should Technology be Implemented into School Classrooms?
Technology has long been implemented into school classrooms for educational use and has been on the uprise in usage in the last few years. Ever since the release of iPhones and more modern technology by Apple and other companies in the early 2000s, schools have used more technology such as Chromebooks to be…
USC Student Shot and Killed
On March 10, 2019, University of Southern California (USC) student Victor McElhaney, was fatally shot early in the morning. McElhaney was a student of Thornton School’s Jazz Studies program and the son of an Oakland city councilwoman. The victim was killed in an apparent robbery attempt approximately a mile away from the USC…
Behind the Nation’s Opioid Crisis
Opioids are extremely controversial. On one hand, they are widely feared compounds that can lead to abuse and addiction but they are also extremely effective and essential medications that help to relieve suffering. Once hailed as “wonder drugs”, opioids have caused an epidemic that is to blame for 70,000 lives in the U.S….
Heart Heroes!
475,000! The number of Americans dying from cardiac arrests annually. These people experience unprecedented deaths due to a sudden loss of blood flow by failure to effectively pump in the heart. Fortunately, just a few hours or even minutes of training may get you to save someone’s life with the use of CPR….
[JJSR Highlights]Do Students Learn Better in Single-gendered Schools?
As students start to think about what kind of school they want to learn in, they wonder, would it help to go to a single-gender school? When they are considering this path of education, they should consider both the pros and cons of this type of schooling. Single-gendered schools come with many…
[JJSR Highlights]The Cruciality of Science Fairs
On January 31st, Portola Highly Gifted Magnet (HGM) hosted its annual science fair for its seventh and eighth graders. Nearly 200 students participated and presented the projects they had worked on for almost 5 months in front of judges with advanced degrees in sciences, including parents, college professors, scientists, etc. Although it was my first…