January 27, 2012 RSS feed / Schools

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Camarillo resident recounts Holocaust horrors

Pierce shares story of survival with Simi students
By Anna Bitong
annab@theacorn.com
Charles Pierce, 91, remembers the faces, the sounds and the smells from his long imprisonment in six Nazi concentration camps as if the details and images were frozen in his brain. More...

Heavy lifting

SLIPPERY VISITOR—Hollow Hills Fundamental students try to hang on when Sunny the albino Burmese python starts to wiggle out of their arms during an animal education show by Wildlife Learning Ce More...

Arts council announces scholarship program, exhibition

Focus on the Masters and the Ventura County Arts Council are providing scholarship funds and exhibition opportunities to high school seniors who plan to pursue art studies in college. More...

Options for B and C students

Counselors at some secondary schools—where administrators tout acceptances to highly selective colleges and parents expect top students to be admitted to elite schools—may feel pressure to focus their energy on the high achievers. More...