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Guest Column: La Caņada High School seniors succeed at notable colleges, again
For nearly a decade, I have taken the opportunity to highlight many of the impressive college choices made available to the graduates of La Caņada High School. The Class of 2012 was no exception. Of the 323 LCHS 2012 graduates, 98% have enrolled at...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of the Pacific, New York University
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UC Irvine professor quits midway through online Coursera class
L.A. NOWA UC Irvine professor has stopped teaching midway through a massive online course in microeconomics offered through the Coursera organization, saying that he had disagreements on how to conduct the free class for thousands of students around the world.... -
Exocomets could be as common as exoplanets, astronomers say
A team of astronomers has discovered half a dozen exocomets, which may be as common as exoplanets orbiting other stars, researchers said Tuesday. The research, presented Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, could provide...
Tags: Science and Technology, Astronomy
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New study helps build the case for expanding Medi-Cal
After pushing to cut Medi-Cal spending in each of his first two years in office, Gov. Jerry Brown now has to decide whether to seek to expand it by billions of dollars -- largely, but not entirely, on Washington's dime. A new report from researchers at...
Tags: Mental Health, Labor Markets, University of California, Los Angeles, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Productivity
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UCI ranks high on magazine's best-value list
A recent ranking of the 100 best-value public schools in 2012 listed UC Irvine as No. 16 — one of five California schools in the top 20. UCI, according to the ranking made by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, admits 47% of those who apply and...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Students, University of California, Santa Barbara, Education, University of California, Irvine
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A simpler, fairer way to fund California's schools
Driving along Pacific Coast Highway, you can see the successive layers of earth and rock that have piled up over millions of years to create California's coastal landscape. You can see a similar but less attractive phenomenon if you look at the way...
Tags: Dental Health, Environmental Issues, Politics, Stanford University, Students
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Richard Baum dies at 72; China expert at UCLA
Richard Baum, a leading China expert at UCLA who founded a lively and influential Internet forum used by hundreds of scholars, diplomats, journalists and government officials to follow ideas and trends in contemporary Chinese politics, died Friday at...
Tags: Justice and Rights, South China Morning Post Limited, Brookings Institution, Politics, Radio
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Secretary of Labor recommends shift in approach at community colleges
L.A. NOWThe more than $500 million in grant money allotted to nearly 300 community colleges and universities for job training this week reflects a needed shift in priorities in community colleges, according to U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis.... -
UC executive pay raise sparks another bill to restrict such hikes
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Gov. Brown signs bill to help injured college athletes get degrees
PolitiCalGov. Jerry Brown goes to bat for injured college athletes... -
Does gay conversion therapy ban violate free speech? [Talk back]
L.A. NOWA new ban on gay conversion therapy in California, the first of its kind in the nation, has divided lower courts and legal scholars on whether the law violates free speech rights. The law would prohibit doctors and therapists from...... -
Feds investigate claims of anti-Semitism at UC Berkeley
L.A. NOWThe federal government is investigating charges that UC Berkeley officials fomented a hostile campus climate for Jewish students by failing to sufficiently tamp down anti-Israel protests. The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights office...
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