Articles Tagged ‘lausd’

Class brings Penny Harvest to local school

By yasmeen serhan · Daily Trojan

December 4, 2012 at 11:00 pm

Students in Ann Crigler’s civic engagement class taught young students about fundraising.

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Teacher evaluations need improvement

By Valerie Yu · Daily Trojan

November 9, 2012 at 5:04 pm

Poor teaching plagues bright futures. Evaluating the performance of teachers has become essential to improving school systems across the nation; however, student scores on standardized tests should never be taken as the measure of an educator’s worth. With the rise of new test score-based models such as Los Angeles Unified School District’s “Academic Growth Over [...]

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Deferred action aids undocumented students in LAUSD

By Constance Ge · Daily Trojan

September 30, 2012 at 6:16 pm

The recent policy allows some undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. temporarily.

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Panel discusses state of education system

By Mat Goldstein · Daily Trojan

March 20, 2012 at 12:15 am

Panel discusses state of education system

EdMonth kicks off with a panel of educational leaders Monday in Bovard Auditorium.

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$30 million donated to build new hall

By Rachel BRacker · Daily Trojan

February 2, 2012 at 10:49 pm

$30 million donated to build new hall

Alumna Verna B. Dauterive said the building will honor her late husband Peter W. Dauterive.

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Teacher ratings ineffective

By Elena kadvany · Daily Trojan

April 7, 2011 at 9:26 pm

The L.A. Unified School District’s value-added system neglects important factors.

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Food Revolution only trying to help LAUSD

By Eddie Kim · Daily Trojan

March 9, 2011 at 8:49 pm

Months ago, British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver brought a proposal to the Los Angeles Unified School District. He wanted to shoot the second season of Food Revolution, a show focused on reforming school lunches to be healthier, in Los Angeles schools. LAUSD said no. The show is an evolution of Oliver’s British programs such as [...]

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LAUSD pushes school start date back

By Natalie Chau · Daily Trojan

September 8, 2010 at 5:18 pm

LAUSD pushes school start date back

Students will return to school Sept. 13.

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Green Resolution, in its third year, cuts costs and engages students

By Bob Qiu · Daily Trojan

March 9, 2010 at 2:50 pm

LAUSD planning to upgrade school buses.

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Students build website to assist local children

By Pedro Moura · Daily Trojan

August 27, 2009 at 1:15 pm

Summer school cancellation prompts class to compile links to learning resources.

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SPECIAL FEATURE: Prof loses tenure bid after appeal

On April 3, Assistant Professor of International Relations Mai’a Keapuolani Davis Cross, who had traveled cross-country from her tenure track position at Colgate University to ...

Center to host more concerts after deal with Nederlander

The Galen Center entered into a deal last week with Nederlander Concerts, a Los Angeles-based company that organizes concerts with venues, to increase the numbers ...

Annenberg creates community pay phones

A group of USC students, community members and local artists in Leimert Park are bringing the pay phone back into service — and hoping to ...

Opinion

’SC sets example in lowering dropout rate

A report sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reveals that the nation’s higher education system is facing a dropout crisis. Produced in part ...

Should the Guantánamo Bay prison remain open?

The prison must be closed as it stands for hypocrisy and infringes upon international human rights.  One hundred of the total 166 inmates at the Guantánamo ...

The Internet celebrates 20th birthday

Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of World Wide Web. The organization responsible for building the Internet, CERN, also created the Large Hadron ...

Sports

Trojans begin three-game homestand against TCU

As the USC baseball team enters the final month of its baseball season 11 games under .500, it can at least feel good that it ...

USC faces North Florida in first round of tournament

For the No. 4 USC women’s sand volleyball team, its entire season has led up to this tournament. The team will finally be put to the ...

Jovan, Monica Vavic earn league awards

When it comes to dominating the competition in the pool, nobody does it better than the Vavic family. Following a season in which head coach ...

Lifestyle

An Exercise in Authenticity

Though Generation Um…includes a star studded cast—Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic, and Adelaide Clemens—this film surprisingly has more of an indie vibe.  Set in New York ...

History behind shakes

Though finals loom as obstacles between now and summer, Ground Zero Performance Café has the perfect solution for both cooling down and serving your study ...

Play creates darker version of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale

Before Disney’s Peter, Wendy, John and Michael flew over “poor Nana” toward Big Ben and continued to the second star to the right and straight ...

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In Photos: Washington comes to USC

In Photos: Washington comes to USC

The Schwarzenegger Institute held an immigration reform forum titled "Washington comes to USC", with U.S Senators John McCain, Michael Bennet and former President of Mexico ...

In Photos: Armenian Genocide

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In Photos: Springfest 2013

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