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Ms.Porter provides students with the support they need to move their school garden plan forward
Students discover they have a second chance at establishing a school garden with the help of the teacher who led the first attempt.
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Does the way we assess student achievement need to be revised to reflect the demands of a changing world? A teacher in South L.A. has done that and the results are impressive.
It's time for another updating of stories and issues that have recently occupied these pages.
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Go Green AHS has been taking small steps towards making our dream come true of re-establishing an existing school garden.
Vietnamese community celebrates cultural heritage and Lunar New Year in the San Gabriel Valley.
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This week L.A. Letters examines Cerritos and explores the unique legacy of this gem of a city nestled in the southeast corner of Los Angeles County.
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How do you play the L.A. River in South Gate?
Arroyo High School Students - During Love is Respect El Monte Twitter Party
Today, social media plays a pivotal part in everyone's lives, but for current high school students who have grown-up in the digital information era, social media is simply part of their DNA.
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"It's about saving one or two dollars here and there, but most importantly, about sharing the message and creating dialogue within families about going to college,"
Sometimes the racial divide of daily life feels bigger than the one faced by protesters in 1965.
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What role does a popular video game have in a 21st century classroom?
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For more than 150 years, the builders of Southern Californians depended on climate and a sales pitch to lure new buyers of whatever El Dorado was currently on offer, be it orange groves or suburban house lots. But that kind of selling to that kind of b...
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