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Sal Castro recalled as inspiring teacher
Sal Castro was praised as a tireless, inspiring leader and activist by university professors, doctors and a former California Supreme Court justice at his funeral Thursday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. But he simply wanted to be remembered...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles Unified School District, Students, Human Rights, Teachers
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Piano Spheres to pay tribute to Leonard Stein with a free concert
Los Angeles Times Music CriticWhen pianist, pedagogue and Arnold Schoenberg's former secretary Leonard Stein formed Piano Spheres in Los Angeles in 1994, he was providing exposure to four of the best and most imaginative students he had mentored. Gloria Cheng, Vicki Ray, Mark Robson...Tags: Music, Entertainment
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Alice Waters, school officials talk teaching with food
Fast food begets a fast-food culture that has seeped into pretty much everything going on in the world today, the chef Alice Waters told a crowd gathered at UCLA for a presentation about edible education. Fast food, Waters said, affects our laws,...
Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Tomatoes, Dining and Drinking, Students, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Ready to Ramble: Loyola volleyball in final four
For RedEyeDo something in Chicago that hasn't been done in 50 years, like the Loyola men's volleyball team is doing, and eventually heads will turn. "Going to the final four, to accomplish that, definitely people are noticing," said Eric Daliege, a fifth-year...Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, Students, Loyola Ramblers, Education, Teaching and Learning
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Walk-on Collin Mehring a rising star in UC Irvine volleyball
Collin Mehring had been a growing boy and a somewhat unreliable contributor to the UC Irvine men's volleyball team for two years while being an intense student in the school's acclaimed computer science engineering program. And that's hardly surprising....
Tags: College Sports, The Pennsylvania State University, UC Irvine Anteaters, Science and Technology, University of California, Irvine
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Briefs: Ex-Pirate signs with NFL team
Former record-setting tailback inks free-agent deal with Baltimore after stint at Louisiana Tech. Former Orange Coast College tailback Ray Holley has signed as a free agent with the Baltimore Ravens, Pirates football coach Mike Taylor said in an...
Tags: College Football, Michigan Wolverines, College Baseball, UCLA Bruins, Tennis
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College trustees appoint two presidents, acting chancellor
Two college presidents and an acting chancellor were named by the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees on Wednesday. Laurence B. Frank, who is deputy chief of staff for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, will become the new...Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Colleges and Universities, FBI, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Efforts to split Santa Monica-Malibu district gain new traction
The PTA at Point Dume Elementary in Malibu is a fundraising machine. Parents collected about $2,100 per student in the 2009-10 school year, money that helped pay for music and art programs, as well as a dedicated marine science lab. But now the Santa...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Finance, Students, Economy, Business and Finance, Music
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School of Visual Arts Leads Student Academy Awards Finalists
ReutersMay 01 (TheWrap.com) - The School of Visual Arts in New York City leads all schools in this year's Student Academy Awards competition, which has been narrowed down to a list of finalists released by the Academy on Wednesday. Five films produced at the...Tags: Columbia University, Academy Awards, Belgium, University of Texas at Austin, Swiss Confederation
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Calexico High nets three Gates scholarships
Staff WriterCALEXICO — Calexico Bulldogs can once again be proud to know that three Calexico High School students have received the Gates Millenium Scholarship of only 1,000 chosen nationwide annually. The school had nine finalists total, but in the end,...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities, Students, Education, Teaching and Learning
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Colleges and Universities, Hofstra University, Heart Attack, Esophageal cancer
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Bionic eye maker has vision of the future
Robert Greenberg got tired of hearing from senior engineers that it wasn't possible to build his product idea: a bionic eye that gives sight to the blind. "A lot of the folks straight out of school didn't know any better, so I hired them instead,"...
Tags: Science, Engineering, Health Organizations, Blindness, Technology
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