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New America Media, News Report, Anna Challet
California schools are getting close to fully implementing Common Core, and with it new standardized tests, more rigorous expectations for classrooms, and over $1 billion in state funding for school districts...
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...
New America Media / BabyCenter en Español, News Report, Erika Cebreros, Translated by Elena Shore
SAN FRANCISCO – Lourdes Alarcón is what higher-education experts call a “non-traditional student.”..
KARLA MARTINEZ/Coachella Uninc
Editor’s Note: October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and in California this week Governor Jerry Brown will decide whether to sign into law Assembly Bill 256 (Garcia), a bill that would crackdown on students who torment others online and after school hours...
Tasha Hunter, a substitute teacher and mother of three, stood calmly amidst the hundreds of students cheering and protesting for disciplinary reform at the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) administration building Tuesday afternoon...
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, News Report, Vickie Cheng
SAN FRANCISCO – Elsa Eder stands in her lab coat, preparing to inject genes from one cell into another...
by Jamilah King
Anala Beevers is a 4-year-old genius. At four months, she learned the alphabet...
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...
When was the last time you visited a local library branch in Long Beach? You have thirteen opportunities, 12 branches and online...
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