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Jane Buckingham wrote “The Modern Girl’s Guide to Motherhood” in 2006. A decade later, she would conspire to fix her son’s ACT exams.
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In a historic gift, billionaire developer Rick Caruso is donating $50 million to Pepperdine Law School to help underserved students attend, pay off student loans and enter public service.
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When did you last divide a polynomial? High schoolers deserve math instruction relevant to their lives, rather than algebra and other higher math.
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Cal State Chancellor Timothy P. White will retire from the nation’s largest public university system next year.
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Some teachers will give you an A if you score a 90% for a course, while others will give you an A for 88% or 85%, a Union-Tribune review shows.
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Chicago parents leaned on family, friends and community groups as 25,000 teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district went on strike this week, canceling classes for more than 300,000 kids.
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Twenty-seven percent of students who entered Cal State universities as freshmen four years ago graduated in 2019, up from 19% in 2015, according to CSU’s figures.
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The strike is Chicago’s first major walkout by teachers since 2012. It follows months of negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools over pay, class size and other issues.
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Under a new law, schools will be forced to start later in the morning -- and more kids will have to go to school without their working parents.
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Since 1966 USC has cared for the historic Gamble House in Pasadena. Soon the university will hand off management as locals seek more control.
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Felicity Huffman went to a prison in Northern California where she will spend two weeks for conspiring to rig her daughter’s college entrance exams.
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The survey of 181,752 students was conducted at 33 universities including Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Northwestern and the University of Oregon.
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A new state law mandating a later school start time for middle and high schools has drawn mixed reactions. Many school leaders are skeptical; parent opinion is mixed; many students seem to like the idea.
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A new California law requires middle and high schools in urban areas to delay start times to allow students to get more sleep.
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Good teachers know how to handle defiant students without suspending them. Let them do their jobs without more mandates.
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In a statement, Committee Chairman Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and ranking member Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) said the committee was aware that Hill “may have engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on her congressional staff.”
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It’s easier to bleat about the impeachment inquiry process than deny William Taylor’s account of the quid pro quo President Trump demanded of Ukraine.
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The Trump administration is reassigning Yosemite Supt. Mike Reynolds amid controversial proposals for increasing recreation and tourism in the park.
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Anyone who visited a West L.A. Starbucks the morning of Oct. 16 or Disneyland on that day should take precautions, county health officials said.
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