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Elementary Education

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Blindfolding Kids at L.A. Unified Schools Banned

    The L.A. Unified School District has reacted slowly and sometimes defensively to the horrific Miramonte Elementary School sex abuse scandal. One of the stranger outcomes will be that fourth graders will no longer be blindfolded for an exercise designed to test and strengthen kids senses. Of course ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2012

    Parent Trigger's Second Try

    Minority parents target failing Adelanto school

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    New Study: Cooking In The Classroom Helps

    Cooking with Kids​Alright, kids, put down your pencils and pick up your spatulas. A new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found that the Cooking with Kids elementary school program is beneficial to young students. The program incorporates science, cul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Will Royals Will and Kate Pop into Las Familias Del Pueblo When Visiting Skid Row?

    Ted SoquiAlice Callaghan of Las Familias del Pueblo​Prince William and his wife, Kate, are heading to Skid Row on Sunday to visit Inner-City Arts school, which is all fine and dandy. But we suggest the royal couple also hang out at Las Familias del Pueblo, the Skid Row childcare center with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Project SOAR: Giving Kids a Chance to Sing and Dance

    Courtesy of Hollywood Arts CouncilKids from Project SOAR show their artwork​ Up onstage in the Los Feliz Elementary School auditorium, a group of third-graders literally runs through an improvisational acting exercise, the instructor having directed them to scurry at each other from opposin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    L.A. Catholic Schools Do Their Part to 'Win the Future' for Obama -- Add 20 More School Days, Raise Tuition

    rawstory.comObama wants YOU to win the future​We're no experts, but we think God might prefer that the Catholic children of Los Angeles get a little rest come June-time. Nope. No luck for the weary. Cardinal Roger Mahoney tells City News Service today that "the elementary schools in the Archd ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    Juarez's Children: Drugs, Death, and Fear

    rawstory.comObama wants YOU to win the future​We're no experts, but we think God might prefer that the Catholic children of Los Angeles get a little rest come June-time. Nope. No luck for the weary. Cardinal Roger Mahoney tells City News Service today that "the elementary schools in the Archd ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    Educating Maria

    On L.A.'s Skid Row, a generational war over how to teach the American children of illegal immigrants

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Proposed Bill Would Raise Kindergarten Age to 5

    ​In an effort to save California an estimated $700 million dollars in annual education spending, California legislators are considering changing the minimum kindergarten enrollment age from 4-years-old to 5. The state Senate approved the bill by Sen. Joe Simitian on Wednesday on a 28-4 vote. ... More >>

  • News

    February 11, 2010

    LAUSD's Dance of the Lemons

    Why firing the desk-sleepers, burnouts, hotheads and other failed teachers is all but impossible

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Today In WTF: Teen Solicits Urine From Elementary School Kids

    Beavis.​We're not sure what they're teaching kids down in Manhattan Beach, but they sure are smart. Take the case of 18-year-old Kevin Manuel Duron who, police allege, went to his local elementary school and tried to collect urine from boys in the bathroom there. Police think that Duron, a re ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    PROSE QUEENS

    Beavis.​We're not sure what they're teaching kids down in Manhattan Beach, but they sure are smart. Take the case of 18-year-old Kevin Manuel Duron who, police allege, went to his local elementary school and tried to collect urine from boys in the bathroom there. Police think that Duron, a re ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 3, 2009

    A Reliable Meal

    Beavis.​We're not sure what they're teaching kids down in Manhattan Beach, but they sure are smart. Take the case of 18-year-old Kevin Manuel Duron who, police allege, went to his local elementary school and tried to collect urine from boys in the bathroom there. Police think that Duron, a re ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2009

    THE FRESHEST SEAFOOD IN TOWN

    Beavis.​We're not sure what they're teaching kids down in Manhattan Beach, but they sure are smart. Take the case of 18-year-old Kevin Manuel Duron who, police allege, went to his local elementary school and tried to collect urine from boys in the bathroom there. Police think that Duron, a re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    New Kid-Created Root Beer is All Bark, No Bite

    Jessica RitzCute overload! Root beer, kitties and doggies at the Larchmont Larder. If only more kids' school experiments turned into successful entrepreneurial ventures instead of too often becoming emotionally scarring exercises in failure. Seven-year-old Oscar Youd's first grade soda making scie ... More >>

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    LA People 2009: The Spark — Agnes Stevens and the School on Wheels

    Jessica RitzCute overload! Root beer, kitties and doggies at the Larchmont Larder. If only more kids' school experiments turned into successful entrepreneurial ventures instead of too often becoming emotionally scarring exercises in failure. Seven-year-old Oscar Youd's first grade soda making scie ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Reason to Buy Yet Another T-shirt

    Very Meri Tees

  • News

    September 4, 2008

    Art School or LAUSD Folly?

    A gorgeous downtown high school has no plan, no curriculum — but sure looks fab

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2008

    Clueless California Voters Fail IQ Test

    You gotta love the brilliant decision by the respected polling group, Public Policy Institute of California, to once again sneak in subtle test questions of California residents while asking them to opine on everything from whether we should borrow from the Lottery (voters say No) to whether Schwarz ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    April 17, 2008

    Teaching for America in Crips Territory: Relentless Pursuit

    Hope and little glory at an L.A. high school

  • Music

    January 3, 2008

    State Funding Provides Daytime Gig for Musicians

    Hot for teacher

  • News

    October 11, 2007

    Will Teach for Food

    A payroll disaster at LAUSD ruins educators’ finances, with no fix in sight

  • News

    May 17, 2007

    Antonio Remakes School Board

    But with 43,000 kids fleeing LAUSD to charter schools, will mayor follow?

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    Nasty Battle for Classroom Control

    L.A., which educates one of every 12 California students, is ground zero in the Education Wars

  • Columns

    March 1, 2007

    Townie

    “This is the best street in L.A.,” declares Eric Garcetti as we step onto Park Drive in the hills of Echo Park.

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    Smoked Out

    Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

  • Art+Books

    October 26, 2006

    A Child's Garden of Modernism

    Kindergarten at Art Center

  • News

    May 18, 2006

    The Takeover King

    Is Mayor V betraying his old-time union allies? Or rescuing L.A.’s troubled public school system? Whatever the answer, he faces the biggest risks of his political career.

  • Columns

    January 26, 2006

    Drum Set in the Basement

    Is Mayor V betraying his old-time union allies? Or rescuing L.A.’s troubled public school system? Whatever the answer, he faces the biggest risks of his political career.

  • News

    April 14, 2005

    The Rain Catchers

    Is Mayor V betraying his old-time union allies? Or rescuing L.A.’s troubled public school system? Whatever the answer, he faces the biggest risks of his political career.

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    An American Family: Close to Breaking

    The Aguilars face money problems, bad grades and near-constant arguing about Luis’ future

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    Rich With Possibilities

    Edwards has the right stuff — the civil rights stuff

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    To Be Gay and Young in L.A.

    Coming-out stories

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    Dueling for an Education

    Some parents win, others lose English-Spanish program

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    Reject Me, Please

    The strange art of applying to L.A. magnet schools

  • Columns

    October 25, 2001

    The Erotic Arts

    The strange art of applying to L.A. magnet schools

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    A Choice Experiment

    Charter schools’ hype outpaces results

  • Calendar

    December 7, 2000

    The View From the Classroom

    A panel of teachers responds

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    All My Children

    A first-year teacher’s journal

  • News

    December 7, 2000

    The View From District Headquarters

    A conversation with Superintendent Roy Romer

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    No Vacancy

    The school district's space crunch is much worse than you know. And no one has a plan that will fix it.

  • News

    April 13, 2000

    Size Matters

    Former Governor Pete Wilson said that reducing class size would be good for kids. He should have said it would be good for affluent kids.

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    The Hot Seat

    Ramon Cortines has Promised to Reinvent the City's Schools. But Can He Deliver?

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Spacing Schools

    Uh-oh! L.A.’s grand plan for creating classrooms won’t work

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    Held Back

    The Miserable State of Black Education

  • News

    November 25, 1999

    The Wizard of Simi

    Harry Potter’s magic survives another match with Muggles-parents

  • Calendar

    May 13, 1999

    Rat Patrol

    Harry Potter’s magic survives another match with Muggles-parents

  • Calendar

    March 4, 1999

    Lies I Told My Mother

    Becoming a storyteller

  • News

    June 4, 1998

    Squeeze Play

    (continued)

  • Music

    May 28, 1998

    School's Out

    (continued)

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