- USC J-School To Teach Convergence To All
Beginning in the fall, incoming journalism students at the University of Southern California will march headlong into a future of media convergence. Those longing for a career in newspapers will be required as part of their academic training to appear on television and radio. Future TV news correspondents will have ......
- Standardized Testing is best measure of success.
(Commentary).
THE recent annual release of statewide STAR test results (Standardized Testing and Reporting) provides a good opportunity to evaluate how our public schools and students are doing, and also serves as a good reminder of the important standards-based education reforms currently underway to improve California schools. Improving public schools has ......
- The Race Gap in Student Achievement Scores: Longitudinal Evidence from a Racially Diverse School District
HEADNOTE Black and Hispanic students often display substantial gaps in test scores when compared to White students at all levels of education. In this article, we examine when and how the Black-White and Hispanic-White test score gaps develop in the early elementary grades in a California school district with a ......
- HEALTHCARE U
HEADNOTE CSUF Starts Healthcare Degree, Offers Advanced Nursing Training Twenty-five graduate students are set to enter new healthcare ground this fall at California State University, Fullerton. The students are the first enrolled in a master's of public health degree program, housed in a new $19 million, 72,000-square-foot building addition at ......
- Private schools offer real alternative to educational
doldrums.
Only 67% of California high school students graduate, a figure that ranks the state 36th in the nation. Alarmingly, only 29% of students have "College-ready" transcripts in California, a percentage that is better than only five states, and the 50th state, Nevada, is a mere 3 percentage points behind California....
- Career academies: Cutting-edge reform or passing fad?
IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 5 Graduating students from the Media Academy at Fremont High School. Radio/TV Production Class, The Media Academy, Fremont High School, Oakland, Calif. Media Academy students at East Bakersfield High School tour the Art Institute in Santa Monica. A simple idea is taking hold in American high schools these ......
- Writing across the curriculum in a college of business
and economics.
A recent study examined how written communication concepts and skills have been integrated into core courses in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge. Writing-across-the-curriculum programs have met with mixed success. We wanted to see how elements of such a program were working at our university....