The San Bernardino Urban Conservation Corps provides at-risk youth with education programs and training in environmental conservation and land management work. It has helped give two men in particular a fresh direction in life — and a job.
The goal of the nonprofit Great Public Schools Now is to ensure that high-need communities in Los Angeles have high-quality public education options, without regard for governance model.
Growing up in poverty in the back hills of Kentucky, Magdalene Bowman found school to be a haven. “I was happy to go to school to get breakfast and lunch,” recalled Bowman, a native of Detroit who moved to Kentucky with her family after her father passed away. “Often I wore the exact same, often...
In the classic fairy tale, Snow White bites into an apple and slips into a state of suspended animation. For another figment of fiction, Rip Van Winkle, a sip of moonshine affords the luxury of sleeping through the American Revolutionary War. Sleep has long featured in our collective storybook...
Ethnic studies is an emerging academic field that examines race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and other markers of difference in society. There's a movement across California to make it part of high school curriculum.
Flashback to 2004: The Boston Red Sox trail their archrivals, the New York Yankees, three games to none in the American League Championship Series. No team has ever come back from that kind of deficit. Yet down a run heading into the ninth inning of Game 4 — a potential Sox comeback means overcoming...
Today, there’s a technology for practically every need. But many people don’t realize how much human work it takes the keep these technologies humming — and how much of that work is not done by highly paid app designers and software engineers. There are millions of minute tasks that computers just...