Voting in Tennessee can sometimes feel useless. The state will vote red, Memphis will vote blue and, without a drastic change, there seems little that one vote can do about it. But primary elections are...

Gas prices experienced a sharp increase when Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, an action taken to put pressure on the US in the US-Iranian war. Since then, bulk gas prices have skyrocketed from $1.70 per...

The phone screen lights up: five new messages. Someone is asking if it’s okay to play Senior Assassin in the school parking lot, while another message marked urgent features a student crouching behind...

Students stare at the course selection forms being passed out by their counselors. They list the graduation requirements, and when they get to ‘two foreign language credits,’ both annoyed sighs and...

Sweaty students stumble over to the bleachers after their eight-minute jog. They collapse, take out their phones and begin scrolling. This scene is common in the White Station High School (WSHS) gyms...

Countless colors of paint swirl, blend and layer together; a synchronized beauty slowly unfolds as long hours of sweat and concentration come together into one award-winning finished piece. The Scholastic...

A student’s 16th birthday comes with new responsibilities, growth and the legal sanction to pilot a multi-ton, high-speed, deadly vehicle: a car. Driving brings freedom to go out into the world alone,...

Each week, a family goes to the same grocery store and pays for food with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) card. But the first week of November, just as they were about to pay, their...

You can’t run a car without gasoline, and you can’t run a brain without food. But food, including the lunches some students pack for school, can be expensive. So, according to Cafeteria Manager Martha...

‘SWBAT learn from a curriculum IOT improve teaching’ is what the district thinks — but oversight slips and slides towards censorship, and faculty wonders if curricula are doing more harm than good. Curricula...

Worshippers enter the church interior, the pastor makes a call to worship and they introduce the service’s opening hymn. Striking yet warm sound engulfs the church as the organist begins to play, stretching...