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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Student profile: Marisol and fellow cadets get a fresh start at Sunburst Youth Academy |
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For the latest OCDE Student Profile, we bring you the story of Marisol, a cadet who recently graduated from the Sunburst Youth Academy. For those who might not have heard it, Sunburst is a community high school for at-risk youth that’s operated by the California National Guard in partnership with OCDE. Students spend five and a half months in a military-style environment that enables them to develop leadership, pride and confidence as they earn high school credits and engage in learning with real-world applications.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/marisol-and-fellow-cadets-get-a-fresh-start-at-sunburst-youth-academy/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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For these high school girls, the rigors of wrestling could pay off |
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Summer camp tests mettle in a women's sport that soon might open the door to more scholarships. The number of high school-age girls who wrestle remains dwarfed by their male counterparts — 16,562 versus 262,126 in the 2017-18 season, the most recent statistics from the National Federation of State High School Associations, but all girl wrestling teams are multiplying. Coaching and officiating jobs in wrestling, traditionally an all-male world, are opening up for women. And wrestling soon could be a sport in which athletic girls and women can earn college scholarships.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/07/15/for-these-high-school-girls-the-rigors-of-wrestling-could-pay-off/ |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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Granada Hills Charter High School is already one of the largest charters — now it’s getting larger |
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The plans have long been in the works for what is already of of the largest charter schools in the nation. New students will be attending this fall. Granada Hills Charter High School is swiftly moving ahead with its plans to add elementary and middle school grades at a separate campus about a mile from the high school, bringing its population of more than 4,700 students to over 6,000 by 2023 and continuing its standing as one of the largest charter schools in the United States.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2019/07/15/granada-hills-charter-high-school-is-already-one-of-the-largest-now-its-getting-larger/ |
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USA TODAY
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YouTube looks to dilute nasty programming with curated educational playlists |
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YouTube, which has come under fire in the past year for allowing conspiracy and hate videos to surface to the top, is making another move to clean up its act. The Google-owned network announced what it calls "Learning Playlists," offering a stream of educational content that will stick to one theme and not send viewers to other recommended videos instead. Initially, the videos will be curated by select partners. The companies YouTube will be working with include the Khan Academy, TED-Ed and Crash Course.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/07/11/youtube-curated-learning-playlists/1707250001/ |
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The Holocaust: States require education about it as anti-Semitism, hate crimes surge |
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Oregon is the 12th state to enact a Holocaust education law, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Most of the states have acted in the past few years, and bills are pending in another dozen states. Ignorance about the Holocaust is growing, particularly among young people. A survey last year showed that two-thirds of U.S. millennials were not familiar with Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp complex, located near Krakow, Poland.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/07/15/jewish-holocaust-survivor-antisemitism-hate-crime/1738675001/ |
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WASHINGTON POST
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They grew up practicing lockdown drills. Now they’re steering the conversation on gun violence. |
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For the first time, high school students were invited to participate in Johns Hopkins University’s summer course at its Center for Gun Policy and Research. The student from Birmingham, Ala., came because she wants to “stir up tough conversations” about gun control in a deep-red state. The teenager from Los Angeles was there because she is sick of learning how to prepare for a school shooting instead of how to prevent one. The boy from Baltimore came because he is tired of bullets ripping through his neighborhood as he tries to sleep.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/2019/07/11/357f2f92-a341-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html |
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