Glorifying consumption | Life of privation | Safeguard bees. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for June 20, 2025.

Carpinteria Unified School District (CUSD) administrators Bob Keatinge, Jim Campos and the primary staff of the Canalino ...

The Washington Department of Natural Resources this week used one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island. ‘You’re Not Entitled’: Senate Hearing ...

The Learning Experience in Riverview just wrapped up its Let’s Grant Wishes lesson where the school kids learned all about empathy and helping others by raising funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The Learning Experience, a preschool and daycare, raised more than $11,000 for the Make-A-Wish foundation over the school year. Preschoolers with The Learning Experience raised over $11k for the ...

The mantra “make it a great day” demonstrates the value of intentional actions and communication. Deliberate word choice, timing, tone, delivery, format and audience all play a role in ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and ... high-frequency words that make up three-quarters of the words ...

Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words", "instant words", "high frequency words" or "star words". A new reader finds sight ...

Google has confirmed that the new Night Sight for Instagram feature included in the latest Pixel Drop will make it to A series devices. The company had previously said that the feature wouldn’t ...

There are different ways to be smart, as Harvard psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner proposed in 1983 with his theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner believed that there were 8 distinct types of ...

“I think more than anything its a reflection of our current budget deficit, but the data is clear and we need to make sure we close the kindergarten gap. We’re definitely not giving up.” ...