Inside his Haight-Ashbury home, Ron Jones stands in his brightly adorned kitchen, hunched over vintage newspaper clippings splayed on his colorful kitchen table...
Lively, upbeat music floats through the air as children run about, their parents chatting amiably as the descending sun covers an array of food trucks in a gold...
Day One
Following the inability of his sophomore contemporary history class to understand how Hitler rose to power, Cubberley High School teacher Ron Jones beg...
The Third Wave experiment, a simulation carried out by Cubberley High School teacher Ron Jones in which he turned his classroom into an authoritarian regime to ...
When we walk into the Hamilton Avenue post office, a quiet peace permeates the place. People calmly wait, single file, as packages are scanned at the counter an...
After speaking for a few minutes with an employee over the phone, you pick up your Kung Pao chicken and chow mein packaged in paper boxes dripping with grease. ...
Following the Palo Alto school board’s approval of a donation of $17 million to Addison Elementary School, school officials are moving forward with drafting con...
Laughter erupts in the warm dimly-lit room, and Cathy Humphers Smith quickly taps on the her stand with her baton, calling for silence. “I thought something was...
Emma Cockerell (class of 2018) is one of the Editors-in-Chief for Verde Magazine. She enjoys the diversity of topics that writing for Verde allows, and the high caliber of journalistic excellence. When she isn't doing homework, Emma can be found playing the tennis or the violin, reading, or playing with her four-year-old sister.