If you or someone you know is finishing up their last year of high school this thought may be entering minds, “Should I take a gap year?” A “gap year” is a year off from studies between high school and the first year of college. It’s not a vacation year, either. It should be time…
School in Los Angeles begins August 16, 2016. It’s been a long hot summer, so slow the pace a bit, kick back, and read a book. It’s so important that the reading skills of children remain sharp. According to an article in Reading Rocks, “Summer Reading Loss,” thirteen academic studies covering 40,000 students discovered that…
Leila Marvi is deaf. She’s also the main character in Koolura and the Mayans, and a secondary character in Koolura and the Mystery at Camp Saddleback. She has a few things to say about herself, BFF Koolura Akopyan, and the two novels she appears in. Can you tell us a little about yourself? My name is Leila Marvi….
Children in the care of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are sometimes placed in solitary confinement because the youth has proven himself to be dangerous to himself and others and needs to be separated for a period of time from others to teach the offender a lesson. Short periods of isolation may give…
Netflix, a global provider of streaming movies and TV series, has over 75 million subscribers. It started service in 1998 as an American DVD-by-mail service and began streaming in 2007. Recently, it has produced award-winning programs such as “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black.” The company also cares about kid programming that includes…
A GED Certificate is equivalent to a high school diploma. Michael Ormsby says in his article, “Three Reasons to get a GED Certificate,“ in the United States “39 million adults don’t have a high school diploma.” Since the population of the US is about 323, 343,000, there are about one out of ten adults functioning…
EF High School Exchange Year, the top high school exchange program in the United States, has promoted global awareness through student exchanges for more than 30 years. Since 1979 it has connected more than 100,000 international students with caring host families from the Carolinas to California. The non-profit organization is designated by the U.S. Department…
Back in 2009 I was an aspiring author trying to establish a reader base. I looked into several opportunities, but the Los Angeles Examiner offered the most attractive home for my writing. They accepted my “Dear LA Teacher” premise where parents, teachers, and students wrote in asking important and not so important questions about Education,…
Think the slave trade stopped with the Civil War? Petra knows better. Petra, a beautiful Hispanic girl, just finished a snack with her friend at the Pizza Parlour. When the companions separated, Petra headed home to finish her homework. When she was about to cross the street, powerful hands grabbed, shot her with a taser,…
Nova Benson, an Arcania high school student, is big sister to Starling, best friend to Henry, and has teen problems like homework, boy crushes, and hiding a gift she does not want the world to know about. Not even Henry knows Nova is invulnerable and has super strength. But its all for naught when Nova,…