Photo gallery – ĂŰĚŇÓ°ĘÓ America's Education News Source Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:34:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 /wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-74_favicon-32x32.png Photo gallery – ĂŰĚŇÓ°ĘÓ 32 32 Signed With Memories: The Enduring Tradition of the Student Yearbook /article/signed-with-memories-the-enduring-tradition-of-the-student-yearbook/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:30:00 +0000 /?post_type=article&p=1017643 School’s out … but thanks to a long-standing tradition, students across the U.S. have a keepsake to remember the past year.

Filled with superlatives, quotes, signatures and “H.A.G.S.” messages, school yearbooks celebrate the joy, inside jokes, school pride, loss, change and the overall story of the year. Behind every page, is an effort — often by student yearbook clubs — to document academic life.

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This tradition back to the 19th century — thanks to Boston-based photographer George K. Warren — who encouraged college students to bind and trade their “graduating class pictures.”

As school communities evolve, yearbooks remain a time capsule that preserves how students and educators saw themselves and each other. 

Here’s a visual journey spanning decades, exploring the nostalgia and joy of the last day of school:

From left, Whitney Blaine 8, Kyley (cq) Waitsman 8, Tiana Paul 8, and Natasha Poliakin 7, all second graders at Westlake Hills Elementary School in Thousand Oaks look over the schools yearbook on their last day of school. (Steve Osman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Tim Wilson, Lovonya DeJean Middle School music director, signns the yearbook of Julio Davila (not shown) after class on the final day of instruction at Lovonya DeJean Middle School on Thursday, June 8, 2017 in Richmond, Calif. (Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Nancy Lopez (cq), 8th grade, lays on her backpack reading what her friends wrote in her yearbook on the last day of school at Louisville Middle School in Louisville, Colorado June 07, 2007. (Mark Leffingwell/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images)
Siraj Ameen, left, and Torian Carre look at a yearbook during lunch at Manual High School on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. The school, which re-opened in 2007 after it was closed due to subpar performance in 2007, released its first yearbook since reopening. (AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Middleton High School yearbook staff works together, seated around tables, Middleton, Wisconsin, December 10, 1928. (Angus B. McVicar/Wisconsin Historical Society/Getty Images)
Myron Vaughan, 59, 5th grade teacher at Big Spring Elementary School in Simi Valley, signs the yearbook of teary eyed Alyson Thompson, 11, one of his students, after the end of class on the last school day of the year. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Last day of school tradition, the signing of the yearbooks. Jamie Smith,11, thinks of what to write in one of the many year books passed around by students and teachers at Meadows Elementary School in Thousand Oaks. (Carlos Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
1967: Students from Roslyn Heights And Wheat Ridge high schools look at a yearbook. (Bill Johnson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Marica Moore, holds the center fold of a yearbook that looks more like an art book than a high school yearbook, produced by Moore and a group of students at New Roads High School in Santa Monica, California. Carmela Vibiano, Cooper Nagengast, and Domanique Bjington are students who worked on the yearbook. (Carlos Chavez/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Aug. 20, 2001: At the reunion of the Falmouth High School Class of 1951, Jackson Blake adds a new inscription to a classmates yearbook, “How did we make it this far?” (David MacDonald/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
Alli Tahmoush laughs at pictures in her school yearbook with old classmates at Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. (MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
Students sit in the commons area and page their new yearbooks at Prospect High School on May 26, 2015, in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. Nearly 75% of all students order yearbooks in the school. This number includes 1,500 yearbooks. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
June 5, 1998: Pausing as they recognize a friend, (L) Dominique Brogden,18, and Tomeka Robinson, 17, had been looking over a yearbook on the steps of the old Blair High School. Brogden had just graduated from Blair and was among the last class there. Robinson (a junior) says that while she’ll miss some things about the old Blair, she’s looking forward to being the first class to go to the new Blair. (Michael Williamson/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)
May 31, 2005 / Boulder, Co / Coco Miller (Cq), graduating senior, writes in a friends yearbook during English class Tuesday afternoon at Fairview High School.(Mark Leffingwell/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images)
(L-R) Principal Alice Hom and teacher Laura Lai look over the recently arrived Class of 2021 yearbook at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on July 22, 2021, in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Mariel Fulton lays in the grass signing a friend’s yearbook during the last day of school at Louisville Middle School in Louisville, Colorado, on June 7, 2007. (Mark Leffingwell/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images)
]]> LA Fires in Photos: How the Crisis Destroyed Schools, Uprooted Students' Lives /article/through-the-lens-la-wildfires-reduce-classrooms-to-ashes-uproot-students-lives/ Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:20:00 +0000 /?post_type=article&p=738553 The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles last week wreaked devastation on the lives of students, educators, and families. As the community struggles to recover, thousands of students face the harsh reality that their schools may never reopen, while educators and families navigate significant losses.

With at least seven school buildings reduced to rubble, Los Angeles Unified School District is scrambling to relocate displaced students.

The work of photojournalists who braved the fires and their aftermath captures haunting images of what was left behind — the charred frame of a school bus, precious preschoolers’ artwork — and what has been lost forever. 

Firefighters prepare to fight flames from inside Eliot Arts Magnet Middle School auditorium as the school burns during the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county, California, on Jan. 8 (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)
A firefighter opens the door to a burning auditorium inside Eliot Arts Magnet Middle School during the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Jan. 8. (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)
Sparks fly from the wheel of a burned school bus as the Eaton Fire moves through the area on Jan. 8 in Altadena. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Firefighters scramble while preparing to fight flames at Eliot Arts Magnet Middle School auditorium as the school burns during the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county, California on Jan. 8. (Josh Edelson/Getty Images)
A view of Franklin Elementary school, which was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on Jan. 10 in Altadena, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
A partially melted tricycle is pictured at the Aveson School of Leaders charter elementary school in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on Jan. 14. (Agustin Paullier/Getty Images)
Students’ belongings remain at Marquez Charter Elementary School after  fire torched the campus in Pacific Palisades. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)
A burned mural is pictured outside a classroom at the Aveson School of Leaders charter elementary school in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on Jan. 14. (Agustin Paullier/Getty Images)
Aveson School of Leaders was burned by the Eaton Fire on Wednesday, Jan. 15. (Jason Armond/Getty Images)
Students’ artwork from the Community United Methodist Church’s preschool. (Drew A. Kelley/Getty Images)
A burnt school bus at Aveson Charter School on Jan. 13. (Frederic J. Brown/Getty Images)
Students’ belongings remain at Marquez Charter Elementary School on Jan. 15, after the Paradise Fire torched the campus in Pacific Palisades. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)
Noyes Elementary School at the top of Allen Avenue is a complete loss due to the Eaton Fire in Altadena as seen on Sunday, Jan. 12. (Will Lester/Getty Images)
The Eliot Art Magnet School auditorium along Lake Avenue in Altadena after it was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on Jan. 10. (David Crane/Getty Images)
Students, parents and teachers of Odyssey Charter School South, which burned down in the Eaton Fire, gather at Vincent Lugo Park in San Gabriel on Jan. 14. (Jason Armond/)
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho tours Nora Sterry Elementary as Fernie Najera, an LAUSD Carpenter, works on getting the school prepared for displaced students on Jan. 12. (Jason Armond/Getty Images)
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond helps distribute Grab & Go meals to students and families impacted by the Eaton Fire  at Madison Elementary School in Pasadena on Monday, Jan. 13. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News/Getty Images)
Brian Woolf, a parent of a student from Odyssey Charter School South, gets emotional at a park meeting with other parents, students and educators. (Jason Armond/Getty Images)
Anne Thornberg picks up her daughters Frances, 6, left, and Harriett, 9, who attend Project Camp, free child care to families impacted by the fires, at Eagle Rock Recreation Center on Jan. 15. (Gina Ferazzi/Getty Images)
Children who had attended Palisades Charter Elementary School are welcomed back to classes, now being held at the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Jan. 15. Brentwood school will serve as a temporary location for students. (David Crane/Getty Images)
Joseph Koshki hugs his son, third-grader Jaden Koshki, as they are welcomed back to school by Kathy Flores at Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Jan. 15. (David Crane/Getty Images)
A mother kisses her child goodbye on the first day back to school at Palisades Charter Elementary School which has been re-located to the Brentwood Elementary Science Magnet in Brentwood on Jan. 15. (David Crane/Getty Images)
A displaced student from Marquez Elementary School hugs a bear as she resumes class at Nora Sterry Elementary School in Los Angeles on Jan. 15. (Chris Delmas/Getty Images)
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