Imagine this: it’s late at night, you've been studying for hours and nothing is working. One more look at your notebook and you might go crazy. Believe it or not, putting on a certain kind of...

From saving students hundreds in standardized testing to millions in college tuition, College Assistance Program (CAP) Advisor Jan Spivak spends her work days ensuring students’ successful futures. Spivak...

Social media platforms play a role in our lives, swaying our opinions and influencing our thoughts. News threads and propaganda advertising worldly issues on the recommended feeds of platforms such as...

Like, reply, tweet, post, share; a cycle most teens know too well. There’s easy access to the internet and the ability to converse with thousands online over common topics, but some content can lead...

Standardized tests, like the SAT and ACT, are a poor indicator of intelligence and college readiness because they do not test a student's entire competence; therefore it is unreasonable to students who...

Although American Sign Language (ASL) is a relatively popular language, numerous schools, including ours, don’t provide it as an option for a language class. There are countless reasons ASL would help...

Netflix’s original series “Dahmer” debuted at number one on the streaming services’ “Most Viewed” list. With the true crime genre’s exponential increase in popularity, we should all consider...

As a generation attempting to fix decades of stereotypes rises, tattoos have become more and more the rage. However, many work environments continue to judge people’s character based on the art they...

With a school as diverse as Krop, you would expect the Advanced Placement (AP) classes to reflect the various demographics represented throughout the student body. Sadly, this is not the case.  According...

As teenagers, our lives usually consist of waking up before the sun comes up, and doing homework late into the night. Trying to balance social life, school and work all pile up the stress of being a high...

Over 2,000 school shootings have occured in the United States since 1970, with that number steadily on the rise. The unfortunate reality is that an active school shooter scenario is a very real possibility,...