Weekend Roundup

Here are some education-twinged headlines that appeared over the weekend, in case you want to start your work week with some reading:

1. My front-page story in Saturday's Daily Breeze detailed the inauguration of CSUDH President Mildred Garcia, which is historical for the fact she's the school's first female leader and the CSU system's first Latina campus chief.

2. On Sunday we ran my centerpiece on an important, impactful but sadly slow-growing school trend known as entrepreneurship education.

3. The Los Angeles Times' Steve Lopez had an interesting column Sunday about what he calls the "convoluted and costly" design of LA Unified's new "arts-oriented public high school."

4. The New York Times has a story about a growing technology sector that allows parents almost up-to-the-minute insight on how their kids are faring at school, by allowing teachers to post -- and parents to access -- daily attendance and grade reports. This will sound familiar to folks in El Segundo, Hawthorne and some others in the area that use PowerSchool (one of many companies to provide such a service).

5. Lastly (for now anyway), USA Today just today ran this piece about a downward trend in attendance resulting from text message-driven threats of impending on-campus violence. Anyone noticed this happening here?

That should get you started. Happy Monday. Hahahaha.