Archive for the 'Education' Category
Student documentary shorts about racism and equal educational access slated for premiere March 3
0 Comments Published by Professor Les March 1st, 2008 in Film, Education, Youth Organizations, Community Dialogue, Current Events.Two student-produced documentary shorts about stereotyping and racism in Salt Lake City schools and the challenges children of undocumented immigrants face in going to college will be premiered Monday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in a free, public forum at the City Library main auditorium.
Both films, which run 20 minutes each, are part of The […]
With the voucher issue settled, a perfect opportunity to make a realistic education agenda in Utah
0 Comments Published by Professor Les November 14th, 2007 in Education, Community Dialogue, Politics, Current Events.Editor’s Note: Once again, The Selective Echo welcomes our Mexico-based correspondent Mark Alvarez, long familiar in the Salt Lake City community, who weighs in — with perfect timing as usual — on the issue of Utah schools. The commentary should resonate especially loudly in light of today’s report in The Salt Lake Tribune which reveals […]
Utah only state without a high school ‘dropout factory’
0 Comments Published by Professor Les October 29th, 2007 in Education, Current Events.Utah is the only state which does not have a “dropout factory,” defined as “a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year.”
This is the finding of an Associated Press investigation which asked researchers from Johns Hopkins University to analyze data […]
