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When students have input the top down structure of schools is disrupted in a way that can be empowering for students and provide both academic and social skills.
Justice Antonin Scalia's parenthetical assumption about the exceptional irrelevance of the California scene to the broad American vista only looks peevish and trivial. It isn't.
Students ask questions and explore ideas that are meaningful to them and their experiences. This facilitates deeper and richer conversations about important issues in their community.
The changes that occurred in Downey during the 1980s and 1990s mirror the wider regional changes that occurred across not only Los Angeles, but all of California and the nation.
The tragedy in South Carolina is reverberating in Southern California -- but honestly, sometimes it's hard to tell.
To see monumental sphinxes depends on your capacity for pareidolia - the tendency to see faces and figures in ambiguous shapes in the environment.
This week L.A. Letters spotlights Downey's past from the agriculture of the 19th Century, through the war years and the rise of the aerospace industry, and the development of the Apollo Space program there in the late 20th Century.
It is important to take action so people can have more healthy lives with less obesity and diabetes.
If life is like soccer, then its many lessons are to be found in the journey as well its destination, especially for Juan Sanchez, who grew up in the working class neighborhoods of the San Gabriel Valley.
The building itself appears tired and worn out, and its history has been as jammed packed and traumatic as any melodrama made by the city that it calls home.
The presentation touched on many of the students' Youth Voices topics and provided information on how to conduct community outreach, connect with public officials, and working together to achieve a goal.