This month, Houston’s Rice University started offering a free online Advanced Placement biology class for anyone who has access to the Internet. That means high school students from Indiana to Indonesia could all be learning the fundamentals of homeostasis at the same time in the same virtual classroom this fall. Read more...
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Los Angeles’s public school system may finally be getting the attention it needs – even if it is stemming from negative events. Los Angeles Unified School District’s Superintendent John Deasy resigned on Oct. Read more...
Photo: John Deasy, former Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent, resigned this month after serving for almost four years in the position. His tenure was marked by both successes, such as an increase in graduation rates, and mistakes, including a failed iPad program. (Courtesy of Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
There’s a tendency, when thinking about college admissions, to see Advanced Placement classes and high standardized test scores as a silver bullet – get a high SAT score and the world is at your fingertips. Read more...
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Newspapers have one basic job: Report the news, come hell or high water. Reporting the news can mean different things to different people, but in its most basic sense, it just means writing what happened – telling the truth and holding people and institutions accountable by doing so. Read more...
The special election included five candidates, two referendums and one constitutional amendment. But the only number anyone is talking about is 13.6. The turnout for this election was never expected to be particularly high, but the numbers were abysmally low at a rate of 13.6 percent. Read more...
Photo: Supporters of the Bruin Diversity Referendum react to the announcement by the USAC Election Board last Friday that although the referendum received a majority of votes, it failed to pass because of the low voter turnout. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Instead of blindly accepting what UCLA dining halls are feeding us, UCLA students should start asking questions about where their food is coming from. Whole Foods Market, Walmart and even McDonald’s have launched programs that educate the public about the value of responsibly grown food. Read more...
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Past faculty member and Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs Emeritus Berky Nelson has a perception of the Los Angeles Police Department that is tainted by the 44-year-old memory of blood in a Campbell Hall stairwell. Read more...
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