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San Diego Voice, News Report, Kimetha Hill, Posted: Apr 16, 2014
Photo courtesy of San Diego Refugee Tutoring Center
Editor’s Note: As California schools scramble to prepare for the new educational standards known as Common Core, teachers who work with refugee students have a different concern: the new computerized tests could make these students fall even further behind...
Southern California and Central Valley districts once again dominate top ranks
OAKLAND, CA (April 8, 2014) – Today, The Education Trust–West (ETW) releases its fourth annual District Report Cards, grading and ranking California’s largest unified districts on academic and college readiness outcomes for Latino, African-American, and low-income students...
La Opinion, News Report, Esmeralda Fabian, Posted: Apr 07, 2014
Image: Students attend Family Math Night at Burke Middle School near Los Angeles. ..
[Ed. Note]: Last week, over 400 students in Long Beach convened together at California State University, Long Beach to talk about the issues they face as boys and men of color...
Backpack, check. Breakfast, check. Out the door you go and you’re thinking, “Today will be a good day.”..
A group of young teen chefs are learning how to eat and make healthy food through the Health Corps program at Cabrillo High School...
Just down the street from Cabrillo High School in West Long Beach is a fast-food paradise: McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Winchell’s, Carl’s Jr.,..
By VoiceWaves Guest Reporters Citlali Hernandez and Jocelyn Sanchez
[Ed.Note] VoiceWaves asked two Long Beach high school students to take a photo that depicts things or conditions at their school that they would like to see addressed and/or improved...
Leadership Long Beach is a nonprofit organization celebrating its 25th anniversary. Every year, the organization recruits a group of leaders to educate and motivate them on issues important to the future of the city...
The Long Beach Unified School District recently passed a resolution regarding school discipline policies. The school board urges “careful monitoring to prevent a disproportinate share of suspensions from occurring at a given school campus or with demographic subgroups of students and it urges schools to build upon existing efforts to provide alternatives.”..
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