4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: CORONA-NORCO USD IN INLAND EMPIRE GIVES TEACHERS THE FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT INSTEAD OF PRESCRIBED LESSON PLANS, boosting scores and graduation rates in the heavily Latino, low-income district.

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: CORONA-NORCO USD IN INLAND EMPIRE GIVES TEACHERS THE FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT INSTEAD OF PRESCRIBED LESSON PLANS, boosting scores and graduation rates in the heavily Latino, low-income district.:

CORONA-NORCO USD IN INLAND EMPIRE GIVES TEACHERS THE FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT INSTEAD OF PRESCRIBED LESSON PLANS, boosting scores and graduation rates in the heavily Latino, low-income district.

BY STEPHEN CEASAR, LOS ANGELES TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/HY6CGR

Alejandra Zamora, left, and Saraiyah Hatter at Santiago High. As head of the Black Student Union, Hatter reached out to the Latino campus group. (Francine Orr, Los Angeles Times / April 12, 2012)
April 22, 2012  ::  The third-graders struggled to keep pace. And their teachers at Parkridge Elementary School in Corona wanted to know why.
The teachers met after school recently and delved into sheets of data and reading comprehension test questions. They quickly found the reason: Their students could predict events in a story but only a third of them could infer how an incident would affect the story's outcome.
The five teachers developed plans to aggressively target the lackluster skill. And on Friday, 85% of the students passed the test.