Melissa Pamer has covered Los Angeles Unified's South Bay and Harbor Area schools since joining the Daily Breeze in June 2008. She continues to marvel at the number of untold stories in the country's second-largest school district. She grew up outside Washington, D.C., and has lived in California (both Northern and Southern( since 2000. In addition to LAUSD, she covers the Palos Verdes Peninsula and welcomes tips, story ideas and comments related to either of her beats. E-mail Melissa at melissa.pamer@dailybreeze.com.
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The actor Richard Dreyfuss has an essay in the current issue of Edutopia, in which he makes an impassioned plea for bolstering civic education in our schools, especially as America sits on the verge of its most hotly contested and tongue wagging-est presidential election in a long, long time. It's an interesting, things-you-know-but-may-not-have-said-so-eloquently kind-of read.
And it's available on the mag's website.
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