Upstream News

Surviving Exam Season: Five tips to manage stress this year

By Anjali Martinez, News Editor • April 22, 2024

As AP’s, finals and major projects roll around the corner, around 45 percent of students in an Upstream survey of 22 people reported they feel ‘stressed.’ The pressures of the exam season...

5’s Inbound: College Board unveils new scoring measures for AP history tests

By Chloe Tran and Kaylee Yang • December 4, 2023

“You can get the score that you want and that you deserve because now some of these boundaries are just a little bit more user friendly,” said CVHS World and US History Teacher Kristen Davis-Owen after...

‘Oh, you’re joking’: AP Physics 1 to replace HADV class

By Jerry Fan, Copy Editor • April 24, 2023

Days after students' course requests were entered into PowerSchool, CVHS sophomores refreshed the page, only to find an unexpected change. Students who had selected HISD Advanced (HADV) Physics had been...

Which CVHS house do you belong to?

By Dia Vaswani and Chiamaka Uwalaka • April 1, 2023

913 students make up Carnegie Vanguard High School, all coming from different backgrounds. It's kind of like Harry Potter Houses or Divergent Factions, except instead of asking "Are you a Hufflepuff or...

AP Precalculus comes to CVHS: new curriculum, unexpected changes

By Jerry Fan, Copy Editor • March 10, 2023

AP Precalculus is a new course to be introduced for the 2023-2024 school year. Its reception, however, has been mixed.

History Within History; Teachers and Students Provide Feedback to the AP World History Course

By Vivian Huynh and Esha Sharma • February 27, 2020

World History AP (WHAP) is a rigorous college-level course that sophomores endure to prove their knowledge of world history through analytical reading and writing. Yet, students question the effectiveness...