Stories by Issue
New America Media, Video, Peter Schurmann, Video by Jacob Simas
Ed. Note: In September former secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano took over as president of the University of California, the first-ever woman to hold that position...
Jacob Rios has been going to community college for about six years. Year after year he toiled to complete his general education courses, with each year coming one step closer to his seemingly unattainable associate’s degree...
by Brian Addison
Long Beach City College (LBCC) has announced that two winter sessions will be offered to students shortly after its Board voted to partake in a controversial two-tier fee system for intersession courses...
A student yells a profanity at the teacher.
A student puts down another student.
Dilemmas like these usually result in a standardized punishment method, like suspension or a pink slip...
New America Media, Commentary, Yrui Guan and Jimmie Fails
Ed. Note: Amid all the efforts to reform education, perhaps none promise as large of an impact as the growing use of technology in the classroom...
Every (other) Wednesday, Building Healthy Communities Long beach will be filling you in on the Revamp CA Ed Campaign...
New America Media, News Analysis, Nicole Hudley
What accounts for the achievement gap between minority and white students?..
New America Media, First Person, Stephen Fong and Yuri Guan
Ed. Note: As any parent can tell you, there’s no single blueprint for guaranteeing a child’s academic success...
By Gene Dean
The second annual Politics and Pedagogy conference was held Saturday at Theodore Roosevelt High School, creating an opportunity for students from various Los Angeles-area high schools to teach about a range of social justice issues within their communities...
Today marks a landmark.
Almost a month after more than 300 students and peacemakers from Long Beach traveled to Capitol hall in Sacramento to push legislators to pass policies that ban harsh school discipline and Governor Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the proposal was adopted into the budget on June 17...
Do school uniforms help to provide less distractions? Do they improve attendance? Do they increase school pride?..
New America Media, Commentary, Matt Amaral
Walking around a high school campus at this time of year you will notice the air floats a little lighter and the sun reflects off smiles a little brighter...
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