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Opinion: SoCal schools getting ready for a teaching moment

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Our sister blog L.A. Now is reporting about preparations Southern California schools are making for viewing the Obama inauguration Tuesday morning:

’... more than 600 elementary and middle-school students at Crossroads School in Santa Monica will watch Barack Obama’s swearing-in on 9-foot-by-12-foot projection screens. Final exams for the high school students were delayed a day so they could also participate.

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‘More than any presidential inauguration in recent memory, educators said, schools here and across the country are mounting ambitious efforts to let students not only witness the historical event but also use it as an educational experience.’

Read the full post at L.A. Now.

-- Martin Beck

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