Iflove Education News and Reviews This Weekend: Education is the First Productivity
Iflove Education News and Reviews This Weekend: Education is the First Productivity
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 superintendent in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s No. 2 position.
Cortines targets dropout rate at L.A. Unified
By Howard Blume
The new deputy chief also says he may revisit the phonics reading program and wants to shrink district bureaucracy.
Man charged in visa fraud scheme
By Sam Quinones
English language schools were used in ploy to permit foreign nationals, including Russian prostitutes, to enter the U.S., officials say.
A first for Fourth Street
By Jason Song
A beaming principal and cheering students at the East L.A. elementary school celebrate a state honor.
Ponying up for a public education
Steve Lopez
Twenty-five years ago, I had a child enter kindergarten.
Demolishing Zimbabwe’s education system teacher by teacher
From a Times Staff Writer
With the inflation rate at 100,000%, educators simply can’t afford to teach. They are fleeing to take menial, but better-paying jobs — leaving students behind.
Turf face-off may be in store for L.A. schools
By Howard Blume
Ballot provision forces public campuses to share space with charters, and neither side is looking forward to it.
LOS ANGELES
Cortines to help lead L.A. Unified
Legislator’s bill to punish L.A. Unified raises ethics questions
By Nancy Vogel
Assemblyman Tony Mendoza wants the district to pay the taxes of employees affected by payroll meltdown. Problem, some say, is that his wife is a teacher.
California still lags in student writing skills
By Mitchell Landsberg
Three-quarters of state’s eighth-graders score at or below basic level. News is worse for L.A. Educators cite number of English-learners in classrooms.
Defending home-style ABCs
By Seema Mehta
Religious and secular families unite over legal battle on credentials
Long Beach school district is a finalist for Broad Prize
By Seema Mehta
The award honors academic achievement on urban campuses and comes with scholarship money.
City students less likely to graduate than suburban kids
By Ben DuBose
A new analysis finds that nationally, only 52% of students in urban areas’ main school districts finish. The rate is even lower at LAUSD.
Ballet amid the bullets in Iraq
By Alexandra Zavis
An arts school is an oasis for children who keep culture alive despite war and threats from extremists.
Pasadena’s Muir High is on a new path
By Seema Mehta
Pasadena ’school in crisis’ requires all teachers to reapply for their jobs as part of arduous restructuring.
Exam cheating goes high tech, but its causes are nothing new
By Carla Rivera
Students invent new methods, schools counter with new safeguards. But the underlying issue of honesty has changed little.
Trips give teens global insight
By Carla Rivera
Students trekking to far-off countries — including Costa Rica, Vietnam, Italy, South Africa — represent a growing sector of the travel market.
Bond measure would have support, L.A. Unified hears
By Evelyn Larrubia
Telephone poll finds that 68% of voters would probably back a new funding measure.
School board accused of violating open-meetings law
By My-Thuan Tran
Three Capistrano Unified trustees say information that should have been made public was discussed in a closed session.
New UC president ‘expensive,’ regent says, but worth it
By Larry Gordon
Mark G. Yudof of the University of Texas wins unanimous approval — and annual compensation of $828,084, which triggers protests.
Leo Kolligian, 90; fought for UC Merced campus
By Elaine Woo
Leo Kolligian, a San Joaquin Valley attorney, developer and former chairman of the University of California Board of Regents who championed the construction of the first new UC campus in 40 years, UC Merced, died March 20 of leukemia at his Fresno home. He was 90.
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 superintendent in the Los Angeles Unified School District’s No. 2 position.
Cortines targets dropout rate at L.A. Unified
By Howard Blume
The new deputy chief also says he may revisit the phonics reading program and wants to shrink district bureaucracy.
Iflove Education News and Reviews This Weekend: Education is the First Productivity. Editing by Jennifer Rong