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Input Club compiles course data for students

Paarth Sharma • February 1, 2017

Have you ever wondered how hard a class is? Have you ever wished you could find your chances of getting an A? What if there was a website that allowed you to see statistics about nearly every academic...

Liang case evidences scapegoating of minority officers

Ashley Zhang • March 18, 2016

July 17, 2014 — white New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Daniel Pantaleo kills African-American Eric Garner. Garner passes away from an illegal chokehold after repeating the now famous phrase,...

New blended courses to debut in fall

Madeline McCluskey • March 1, 2016

Twelve new courses have been added to Palo Alto High School’s course offering, among them blended and twilight classes. Blended classes began in 2009 at Henry M. Gunn High School and soon spread to...

New SAT presents problems for juniors

Annalise Wang and Annalise Wang • October 12, 2015

The looming and sacred rite of passage for high schoolers who seek higher education — the SAT — is about to get a makeover that would make Miley Cyrus proud. The debut of the new SAT in March 2016 will feature a complete overhaul of current testing structure, changing everything from time limits to difficulty of vocabulary questions. It is thus unreasonable to expect the current generation of high...

Should a student’s number of APs be limited? NO

Jeffrey Ho, Online Editor-in-Chief • March 6, 2015

Why are Palo Alto schools so desirable? In short, our schools are home to devoted teachers; in addition, students may participate in a plethora of academic and extracurricular activities centered around...