Beginning with this year’s freshman class, students will no longer take math courses like Algebra and Geometry. Instead they will take Integrated Math courses that blend topics like of algebra, geometry...

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me—or so the saying goes. This week, school administrators went from class to class, briefing students on Rio Americano’s policies regarding...

The song may have ended, but the love lives on. At least for Jason and Janet Mackenroth whose love story began in the 1980s with Janet (Janet Coulter, at the time) joining band just to be close to him....

Warm ocean, perfect weather, and good vibes... these are just a few things that I got to experience all week long when I traveled to Hawaii during February break. Things that Sacramento does not offer...

I stepped off the plane into Delhi, India, at 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 13, after a 16-hour flight from California. The first thing besides the smell that I noticed, was the driving. There is absolutely no...

As students transition from eighth grade top dogs to the bottom of the high school food chain, they are told that high school will be the best four years of their lives. They are told that they will make...

  For the last 10 years, Rio Americano has had one of the nicest baseball fields in Sacramento, all thanks to Assistant Varsity Coach Richard Johnson. Johnson works on the fields during school,...

Internet, Social Media Awareness, Resources and Training or iSMART for short is a new program started by the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office that will be implemented in schools all over Sacramento....

What would it be like to attend a sporting game and be prohibited from the typical banter so commonly participated in? At Hilbert High School in Wisconsin, many cheers that are commonly expressed at...

Do you ever get really stressed writing essays for multiple classes on the same day? What if you had a combination of two classes in one? What if your history teacher knew that your English teacher was...

Dean Baird has been a teacher here for more than 20 years, but Rio students aren’t the only kids he teaches. Baird has been writing lab manuals and taking photos for Paul G. Hewitt science textbooks...