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USC will disband German department
Basic language courses will still be offered, but critics say the decision to dump majors and minors will hurt the university’s academic reputation.
Cortines to help lead L.A. Unified
By Howard Blume
Veteran educator Ramon Cortines has accepted a job as senior deputy [...]

Investigation Result: American Students better at basic writing skills
More and more middle- and high-school students have the basics of writing down, but there’s been no increase in the ranks of top-performing teenage writers.
The federal government released the scores Thursday of writing tests given to eighth- and 12th-graders nationwide last year. As in the past, girls [...]

Charter school movement: School Choice and Creative Depression
School choice has many variations the most successful of which is the charter school movement.  There were no such schools prior to 1992 when the first one opened in St. Paul, Minnesota, a school which still functions today.Â
That lonely beginning has grown in sixteen short years to more [...]

Iflove Education Review: Only if Girls Be Boys
It was late on a rainy fall day, and a college freshman named Rey was showing me the new tattoo on his arm. It commemorated his 500-mile hike through Europe the previous summer, which happened also to be, he said, the last time he was happy. We sat [...]

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