Pennsylvania: CHEATING TARNISHES SCHOOL REFORMS Erie Times-News Editorial | http://bit.ly/ovXJeY Monday, 29 August, 2011 - Pressure is intense for students to succeed on standardized tests, but no matter how high those stakes are, there is no excuse for cheating to improve test scores. We aren't ...
LAUSD STUDENTS GRADE DISTRICT’S NEW MENU CHOICES: School officials hope to set the table with healthful food that students will actually eat (…if we’d only give them time to eat it!) By Mary MacVean, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/puQizs Tawana Nagbe, a student at Woodrow Wilson High SchOol, tries the edamame, a new item on the Los Angeles Unified school lunch menu. (Kirk McKoy, Los ...
LOS ANGELES MIDDLE SCHOOLERS GET A LESSON ON THE LEGAL SYSTEM: A mock trial focusing on cyberbullying is the culmination of a 10-week series on the legal system for Los Angeles middle school students.By Rick Rojas, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/p5pAna Prosecutor Olimpia Aguillon, 11, left, and defense attorney Michelle Kweon, 12, with Bingham and McCutcheon's Mike McDonough and Kate Conrad. The downtown law firm and the nonprofit Heart of Los ...
