Displaying items 25-36 of 929
» View latimes.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-78
•
Next >
-
Parents seek new teacher evaluations by September
L.A. NOWLos Angeles parents planned to press for a court order Tuesday forcing the nation’s second-largest school district to begin using student test scores in teacher evaluations by early September. In a closely watched case that could transform teacher... -
Newton: It's legacy time for Villaraigosa
First of two parts | Part two
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn't like to talk about his legacy. He's still moving forward, plowing through the work that is left for him to accomplish with two years remaining. Like it or not, though, this is what faces...Tags: Employers, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Richard Riordan, Regional Authority, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
-
|Story
-
Kiplinger drops Claremont McKenna College amid test scores scandal
L.A. NOWClaremont McKenna College took another blow Friday as a result of the scandal involving its admissions office exaggerating its freshman classes’ SAT scores. The finance magazine Kiplinger announced that it has dropped the Southern California... -
In wake of cheating, tighter security for SAT, ACT exams
L.A. NOWThe millions of students who take the SAT and ACT each year will face tighter security beginning this fall, under new measures aimed at curbing test-taker impersonations.... -
13 more students arrested in SAT cheating scandal; total now 20
Nation NowThe SAT / ACT cheating scandal in New York has led to 13 more arrests. Long Island authorities announced the additional arrests in a scandal that involved students from elite high schools paying others to take college entrance exams for them.... -
ARAB WORLD: Democracy uprisings should herald a new dawn of education reform
Babylon & BeyondEditor’s note: The post is from an analyst with the Carnegie Middle East Center. Neither the Los Angeles Times nor Babylon & Beyond endorses the positions of the analysts, nor does Carnegie endorse the positions of The Times or its...... -
Eighth-grade dropout statistics released by state for first time
L.A. NOWA typically overlooked corner of the dropout problem became a little more visible Thursday when state officials for the first time released the dropout rate for eighth-graders. Statewide, about 3.5% of eighth-graders -- 17,257 in all -- left school and...... -
A call for accuracy in evaluating school progress [Blowback]
Opinion L.A.Marco Petruzzi, CEO of Green Dot Public Schools, responds to Howard Blume and Sandra Poindexter’s Aug. 18 article, "L.A. Unified bests reform groups in most cases, data shows," to propose a better method for measuring school progress. If you would..... -
School cheating investigations weakened by budget cuts
L.A. NOWWhen it comes to cheating at schools, education officials usually turn themselves in. Because of budget cuts, the state Education Department no longer conducts random audits at schools or scans test booklets for irregularities. Twenty-two California... -
No Child Left Behind: Is it being left behind?
Opinion L.A.On Friday, the Obama administration came out with details about how states could win relief from No Child Left Behind's requirement that all students be proficient by 2014. It was always a silly and wildly unrealistic gimmick, and the forecast...... -
Former school board President Canter heads Green Dot charters
L.A. NOWFormer Los Angeles school board President Marlene Canter will head the governing board for Green Dot Public Schools, one of the nation’s largest charter school groups, the organization announced Thursday. The locally based nonprofit operates schools...
Jul 24, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Aug 29, 2011
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Sep 5, 2011
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 3, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Mar 27, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Nov 22, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Jun 10, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Aug 11, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Sep 6, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Sep 18, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Nov 3, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Examinations topic gallery.
