L.A. students and teachers display learning beyond tests
About two dozen teachers and their students assembled Thursday after school near downtown to demonstrate academic prowess beyond a standardized test score.
Preschoolers from MacArthur Park Primary Center, for instance, had prepared watercolors based on Kandinsky. Dahlia Heights fifth- and sixth-graders demonstrated robotic engineering with Legos. And seventh-graders from Julie Van Winkle’s class at Logan Elementary dissected cow eyeballs. They also prepared “cameras obscura”