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Join our chat with Ken Ilgunas, the student in the van by the river
In December 2009, Ken Ilgunas went public as a van-dwelling graduate student in a widely circulated essay on Salon. Playing off the 1990's man-living-in-a-van-down-by-the-river sketch from "Saturday Night Live," he confessed that to avoid crushing student...
Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Teaching and Learning, The Home Depot, Education
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Greuel and Garcetti notch victories at Los Angeles school board
Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel ventured into school district politics Tuesday, lending support to noncontroversial actions and mostly taking a respite from their recent sniping in the Los Angeles mayoral contest. A week before voters go to the polls,...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Unified School District, Teaching and Learning, Wendy Greuel
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Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine to give $70 million to USC for new academy
Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to USC for a new academy that they say will give students the tools they need to break into the rapidly changing music industry. Scheduled to be announced by Dre (whose given...
Tags: Lucasfilm Ltd., Entertainment Events, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., U2 (music group), Black Eyed Peas (music group)
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UC students pleased with school, worried about costs
University of California undergraduates are pleased with the education and social life on their campuses but are worried about how to pay for it all, according to a new survey. The 2012 UC Undergraduate Experience Survey found that about 82% of those...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education
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Officials address restroom problem at Locke High
Chris Tellez sat in class, his stomach grinding. The 15-year-old felt fine in his first class two weeks ago at Animo Locke Charter High School 2 in Watts, but by second period he could wait no longer. "I had to use the restroom," he said. "But the...
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Vandalism, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School
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Suit accuses Compton school district of abuse, racial profiling
A group of parents and students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Compton school district alleging a pattern of abuse and racial profiling of Latinos by school police. One family alleged that school police targeted a student's father for arrest...
Tags: Racism, Laws, Witnesses, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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UC Irvine student finds racist note calling her a 'slave'
In the second racially charged on-campus incident in three weeks, UC Irvine police said Friday that they are investigating a note found in a black student's backpack that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave." The female student discovered the note while she...Tags: Racism, Teaching and Learning, Slavery, University of California, Irvine, Colleges and Universities
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Senators tighten student visa rules in immigration bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee amended the sweeping immigration bill Tuesday to tighten student visa rules in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. The committee, which is trying to get through the 844-page bill by the end of the week, also...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Chuck Schumer, Steve King
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San Diego school board declines to overturn 'twerking' suspensions
The San Diego school board has declined to overturn the two-day suspensions meted out to 31 high-school students for being part of a "twerking video" shot on campus. After hearing complaints from parents that the suspensions were too harsh and could...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Teaching and Learning, Sex Crimes
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You name it, Eric Garcetti has done it
In exactly one week, Los Angeles will wake up with a newly elected mayor. The lucky leader of 4 million restless campers with cracked sidewalks could be Wendy Greuel, the business-suited Valley kid who worked for Mayor Tom Bradley and President...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Foods and Beverages, Politics, England, Amnesty International
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Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti lay sniping aside
Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti ventured into school district politics Tuesday, lending support to non-controversial actions and mostly taking a respite from their recent sniping in the Los Angeles mayoral contest. A week before voters go to the polls,...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles Unified School District, Rentals, Teaching and Learning, Wendy Greuel
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Letters: Dealing with defiant students
Re "A milder way to fight defiance," May 13 "Willful defiance" is not a trivial matter because it affects the ability of teachers to focus on instruction. The real issue is whether suspension is an effective way of dealing with this kind of misbehavior....
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Teaching and Learning
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