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Using technology to fight cheating in online education
While Jennifer Clay was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a proctor a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. Using a webcam mounted in Clay's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her...
Tags: Politics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clemson University, Michael Jackson, Regional Authority
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Vegans accused of bullying agriculture students online
Some agriculture students at a Northern California high school are complaining about being bullied on Instagram and other social networks by students who are vegans. “[One student] keeps posting about goats and sheep and pigs and dead pictures and...
Tags: Students, Vegan Diet, Diets and Dieting
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College trustees appoint two presidents, acting chancellor
Two college presidents and an acting chancellor were named by the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees on Wednesday. Laurence B. Frank, who is deputy chief of staff for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, will become the new...Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, FBI, Students, University of California, Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities
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Efforts to split Santa Monica-Malibu district gain new traction
The PTA at Point Dume Elementary in Malibu is a fundraising machine. Parents collected about $2,100 per student in the 2009-10 school year, money that helped pay for music and art programs, as well as a dedicated marine science lab. But now the Santa...
Tags: Politics, Students, Entertainment, PTA, Government
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High school 'twerking' suspensions to be appealed
Students will get a chance to shake their fingers in protest over being busted for shaking their behinds in a suggestive "twerking" video. The two-day suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego have been served and the students are...
Tags: Students, Punishment
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Document indicates L.A. Unified knew of sexual misconduct claims
School district officials knew of sexual misconduct allegations in 2009 against a teacher at a Wilmington school but failed to act, an attorney suing the Los Angeles Unified School District said Tuesday. The teacher, Robert Pimentel, 57, was arrested in...
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Los Angeles Police Department, Students, Abusive Behavior, Trials
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Summer Movie Sneaks complete list
The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...
Tags: Lena Headey, David Alan Grier, Central Intelligence Agency, Charlie Bewley, Jay Baruchel
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School district knew of alleged teacher abuse 3 years before arrest
Los Angeles school district officials knew of sexual misconduct allegations in 2009 against a teacher at a Wilmington campus who was arrested more than three years later, the district’s top administrator confirmed Tuesday. The teacher, Robert...
Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Los Angeles Police Department, Trials, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Online provider offers courses in education, teacher training
A leading online course provider announced Wednesday that it will offer free professional training and development courses to prepare teachers worldwide for Web-based classes. Coursera, a for-profit clearinghouse for online and videotaped courses...Tags: Museum of Natural History, Arts and Culture, University of California, Irvine, Museum of Modern Art, Teachers
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Parents rally to protest possible end of classroom breakfast program
Union officials representing school cafeteria workers led a noisy rally of parents Tuesday to save a Los Angeles Unified classroom breakfast program that feeds nearly 200,000 children but was in danger of being axed after sharp criticism by teachers....
Tags: Unions, Students, Career and Workplace
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Letters: A tender tale
Re "Teacher pays it forward," Column One, April 24 For those who say newspapers like The Times are fast becoming dinosaurs, I disagree. Where else can you read such heartfelt, engrossing stories as the Column One about a teacher who paid the college...Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Teachers
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Mexico authorities ready to retake occupied university rectory
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's top law enforcement agencies said Tuesday that they were poised to order the removal of a group of masked individuals who have occupied the main administrative building of the national university since Friday. The occupation of...
Tags: Mexico, Students, Colleges and Universities
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