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Teacher, funeral director share intimate view of tornado tragedy
MOORE, Okla. — Preston and Nikki McCurtain are exhausted. It's been a week since a massive tornado tore through this Oklahoma City suburb, leaving thousands homeless and 24 dead, including 10 children. Seven were students at Plaza Towers...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, Tornadoes, Natural Disasters, Memorial Day
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'Miracle' L.A. school board triumph: She thought of her students
For a fleeting moment in her underdog campaign, Monica Ratliff faltered. The candidate for the Los Angeles school board stood outside her chief fundraiser's home and balked at the task of asking people for money. Then, she said, she thought of three...
Tags: Elections, Students, Career and Workplace, Voting, Teaching and Learning
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Matthew Sharpe's storytelling experiment
In my inbox this week: Matthew Sharpe announces “a little experiment in self-publishing on the Internet”: a series of 12 weekly micro-fictions, under the name “Very short stories r us,” that showcase his idiosyncratic blend of...
Tags: High Schools, Teaching and Learning, Schools, Education, Fiction
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Cal State moving to offer online science labs
California State University is moving aggressively to offer web-based science labs, a systemwide virtual campus and online advising as remedies for "bottlenecks" that impede student progress and graduation rates, officials said Tuesday. Some of these...Tags: Students, Jerry Brown, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Government
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Teacher's recording captures harrowing moments during tornado
The chilling screams of students and teachers can be heard on a newly released audio recording, which was made as a killer tornado swept through Briarwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City. The audio, broadcast by KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City on Thursday,...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Briarwood, Tornadoes, Boy Scouts of America, Natural Disasters
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USC made its offer to neuroscientists a no-brainer
The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood restaurant. USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light. Over chicken with braised...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Medical Research, University of Pennsylvania, Game Playing
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Troubled youths deserve more effective discipline than suspension
The limits on student suspensions approved by the Los Angeles Unified school board this week may burnish the district's progressive credentials, putting L.A. in the forefront of a national shift away from zero-tolerance policies that ban kids from...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, F-bomb Dropping, Entertainment Events, University of California, Los Angeles
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Cal State trustees appoint new Cal State L.A president, others
William A. Covino, a veteran Florida and California administrator, was named Wednesday as the new president of Cal State L.A., becoming the first new leader of the El Sereno campus in 33 years. Covino’s selection was among a slate of...
Tags: Students, Columbia University, California State University, Northridge, Teaching and Learning, Sociology
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Political savvy vs. education skills in L.A. school board runoff
The race for a seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education pits the political savvy of Antonio Sanchez against the education skills of Monica Ratliff. And when it comes to campaign resources, politics trumps all. Sanchez, 31, has used his background in...
Tags: Students, Columbia University, Teaching and Learning, Eli Broad, School Examinations
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'The English Teacher' has a class of underachievers
"The English Teacher" is a tragedy masquerading as a comedy and doing a disservice to both. The same could be said for the film's normally fine cast. Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane and Michael Angarano have all had better days. The movie...
Tags: Entertainment, Students, Julianne Moore, Lily Collins, Teaching and Learning
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Geza Vermes dies at 88; scholar wrote about Dead Sea Scrolls
Geza Vermes was a graduate student in Belgium in the late 1940s when he was captivated by news sweeping the globe about a remarkable discovery in the desert east of Jerusalem. He quickly switched gears, penning his doctoral thesis on the Dead Sea Scrolls,...
Tags: Anglicanism, Teaching and Learning, Separation of Church and State, Hungary, Roman Catholicism
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Ka-ching: Rick Perry's plan for Texa$ universities
There are three things Rick Perry would like to do to the great public universities of Texas, but he can only remember two of them. That’s a joke. You may remember that during a 2012 presidential debate, he started to list three departments of...
Tags: Students, France, Rick Perry, Teaching and Learning, Politics
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