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It’s a mad commencement scramble to deliver some pomp to the Class of 2021. Universities are changing their plans the very week that wider reopenings are announced.
A writer who took issue with his daughter’s AP U.S. history course went too far when he accused teachers of ‘deliberately trying to strip the past of relevance.’
As L.A. County high schools reopen, teens are redefining back-to-school wardrobe, shedding their remote-learning loungewear for innovative looks.
Officials abandon effort to extend the school year in the face of opposition from teachers and lukewarm parent support.
An adjunct professor at Cypress College repeatedly interrupted and challenged a student who expressed pro-police views during a Zoom presentation.
L.A. Unified catches up to other agencies and reopens school playgrounds, but with strict guidelines intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Tens of thousands of UC applicants are wait-listed this year amid record applications, and admission directors say forecasting chances of being selected is as uncertain as ever.
My daughter’s Advanced Placement text teaches Black history, Indigenous history, labor history and more very, very badly.
There is nothing hateful or “anti-white” about teaching the contributions and experiences of California’s minority communities.
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Donors are pushing to elevate Jain studies and principles at colleges as calls grow to diversify Euro-centric narratives in education.
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What was a radical campaign promise just 14 months ago is now a mainstream policy proposal framed as the centerpiece of the U.S.'s pandemic recovery.
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With concepts of free college and student debt relief gaining traction, a parent wonders whether to keep using 529 college savings plans.
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A year after graduating into a pandemic, my son was reluctant to attend his ‘make-up’ college graduation ceremony. In the end, it was amazing.
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The jumble of community college course numbers makes it difficult for transfer students.
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Overwhelming majorities of parents believe children are falling behind academically, with low-income students and English language learners at greatest risk, a Public Policy Institute of California poll has found.
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Opponents say the coursework sows divisions, but experts say it’s necessary for overcoming them.
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Roads near the San Diego County school were closed, and people were told to avoid the area.
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Experts say many of those reentering high school this spring aren’t so much returning to campus as reverting to a previous form.
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Families initially returned to elementary schools in lower numbers than expected. The numbers are improving. Middle- and high-schoolers return Tuesday.
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Austin Beutner showed his humanity while leading LAUSD through a teachers’ strike and the pandemic.
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Deputy Supt. Megan Reilly will fill in while L.A. Unified seeks a permanent replacement for Austin Beutner, who is leaving June 30.
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The statewide drop of almost 3%, or 160,000 students in 2020-21, is the largest in 20 years.
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Student activists in Los Angeles have changed the landscape for school policing in the Los Angeles Unified School District and they vow to move on to bigger issues.
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The directive is the largest of its kind in U.S. higher education and would likely take effect this fall after the FDA formally approves the vaccines.
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The Cactus Ranch feels secret, special even, because as far as nurseries go it’s relatively unknown. During the week, the property is a wholesale nursery business, closed to the public. But on weekends it’s open to anyone.
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With demand for COVID-19 vaccines waning, officials are closing some mass vaccination sites while doubling down on getting the reluctant inoculated.
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The authorization potentially paves the way for millions of the doses to reach needy countries through a U.N.-backed program rolling out vaccines.
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Employers added only 266,000 jobs in April, down from March and far short of expectations. That could give Biden’s stimulus spending plans a boost.
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“That Damn Michael Che” falls into several of the same comic traps as “SNL” has under the leadership of Che and “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost.
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Sanctioned tent camps sprouted up in San Francisco at the beginning of the COVID pandemic and have become key to the city’s homelessness response.
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‘Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality,’ a DMV official wrote after debriefing a Tesla engineer who oversees autonomous driving development.
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Essential Politics: The left-right split is far bigger in the U.S. than in Europe — and it’s growing
Essential Politics: The left-right split is far bigger in the U.S. than in Europe — and it’s growing
The divide between left and right is a lot bigger in the U.S. than in western Europe, and it’s widening, a major new study finds.
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