New rules requiring healthier foods in public schools took effect July 1 as a result of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act passed 2010. The new rules set nutrition standards for all food and drinks sold...
After two years of discussion, the decision to push back high school start times reaches an end. On October 23, the school board will vote on 8 a.m. start times for the 2015-2016 Fairfax County school...
Fairfax County is currently in debate over the controversial issue of changing school start times. Most students against the later start times are those who participate in extracurricular activities.
Studies...
Brazil was optimistic coming into the year 2014 as the World Cup host but the glory quickly became overshadowed by controversy.
According to Forbes Magazine, Brazil spent an estimated $14 billion for...
Fairfax County is considering changing the school start time from 7:20 a.m. to 8 a.m. or 9 a.m. for 2015-2016. Students, teachers, and parents argue on whether the school start change is a wise decision...
You may recall those first few weeks as freshmen back in 2010. Many of you were tiny, scared, worried, crying, quiet, clueless, and some even cocky. The truth is that I possessed many of the same qualities...
Google, Netflix, Yahoo, and many more may be coming back to the battlefield to fight what some journalists are calling “the death of the internet as we known it.”
The Federal Communications Commission,...
I failed one of the first tests that I ever took.
I refused to accept the results initially, even going so far as to sympathetically suggest to my pediatrician that perhaps the batteries in her machine...
The College Board announced that the SAT would undergo new changes to "more closely mirror classroom curriculum than its current version," according to College Board President and CEO David Coleman.
The...
The snooze button: one of modern technology’s greatest inventions.
If only our biological clocks could work like our alarm clocks- we would all be asleep and silent with a push of a button, until it...
