I left Los Angeles for Spring Break and I never came back. As eerie as that sounds, I remember packing up my car for the Bay Area with the sinking feeling that I might not be returning.
Tag: education
La Opinion quoted Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on how California is slowly excluding residents with less education “Hemos estado importando graduados universitarios que es bueno”, dijo Green. “Pero lo que…
? America, Heck Yeah! Public Schools & Baseball In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins and D. Roderick (Rod) Kiewiet, Professor of Political Science at Caltech, break down…
Lunch with a Leader provides students, faculty, and members of the public the opportunity to hear ideas from local, state, and national leaders, share their own ideas, and gain inspiration…
By Matthew Kredell Toward the end of the spring semester, representatives from three university student organizations showed up at a class taught by USC Price School of Public Policy Professor LaVonna…
EdSourcequoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffeabout the gubernatorial race. But Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor in USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, said it was oversimplifying to say that Newsom’s victory…
The Atlantic’s “CityLab” highlighted a working paper by Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center and colleagues on how the rise of more educated people with higher incomes in metropolitan…
This summer, a group of students spent a day volunteering to cook lunch and sort clothes at the Downtown Women’s Center, an organization dedicated helping women overcome poverty and homelessness.…
by Raphael Bostic It’s hard to write about education knowing I could have been, but wasn’t, denied all the opportunities that have come my way. For all the decisions we have…
by Robyn Burleson On Tuesday, March 8, the Bedrosian Center welcomed Maria Klawe to the Bedrosian Center at USC for an engaging conversation as part of our Lunch with a Leader series. Ms. Klawe…
by Robyn Burleson On Tuesday, March 8, the Bedrosian Center welcomes Maria Klawe to USC for our second Lunch with a Leader event of the semester! Ms. Klawe is the President…
by Raphael Bostic How do you talk about home without thinking of the American dream? It was Thomas Jefferson who first solidified the vision of homeownership as the foundation of American…
by Justine Dodgen Sherry Lansing has accomplished many things throughout her life. When asked the secret to her success, she replied, “If you don’t have the passion and the resiliency, you…
by Justine Dodgen Sherry Lansing – Translating a high-power career into impact on education Did you ever think that your high school math teacher might one day be one of Hollywood’s…
Originally published on the USC Price website, February 11, 2015 Television icon LeVar Burton discussed how he’d like to see storytelling better integrated into education during a Jan. 28 Holt…
by Justine Dodgen and Raphael Bostic Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton One in four children in America is functionally illiterate, according to LeVar Burton, host and executive producer of the well-known children’s…