Using the trash-filled Los Angeles River to teach about marine life and science
Cater Lee Swartzlander | 12-23-2009 | Comments |

A plastic garbage patch lies between Los Angeles and Hawaii, and the floating ocean dump provides lessons for a new generation of South Los Angeles youth interested in science and the environment. [...]

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Shrinking urban high schools to help students and teachers
Cater Lee Swartzlander | 9-21-2009 | Comments |

 The city's urban high schools are often large, impersonal.  But a new approach to addressing size, and learning, is catching on in LAUSD's crowded schools.

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