We buy our kids new backpacks and stuff them with paper, pencils, protractors, folders, and lunchboxes all in the hopes of starting the new school year off on the right foot. Although these amenities are nice – an absolute requisite according to excited students – the most important factor...
Author: Margaret Lavin
Founded seven years ago, Peninsula College Fund’s mission is to partner with and aid motivated, gifted and traditionally under-represented minority students from...
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While this winter was unseasonably warm and dry, fooling even the lovely flowers into pushing up early, Spring has sprung wet and...
According to Santa Clara County Officials, one in four kids in Santa Clara County are either overweight or obese, and one in...
California is one of nine states to receive federal Race To The Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) money. This much needed funding...
People often inquire about my ability to work with middle school children citing their often unpredictable, narcissistic and unruly behavior. I admit...
I never realized how ‘green’ my family had been. In the 1970s, we recycled and practiced many other environmentally sound habits. I’m...
William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. He raised all...
On Monday we will celebrate the birth of an extraordinary human and great American. Most of us are aware of the super...