TCLA's School Report Card Series
La serie de la Boleta escolar
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5. Learning & Assessment
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6. Safe & Democratic Environment
Ambiente escolar seguro y democrático
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Week of Monday, March 17, 2003
  West LA Students Take Action for Peace
On March 5, students from Santa Monica High School and other west LA schools rallied for peace in front of Santa Monica City Hall.
 Teaching to Change LA Celebrates César Chávez Day on March 31, 2003
In celebration of César E. Chávez's birthday, Teaching to Change LA invites teachers, students and community members to contribute reflections, essays, and artwork around Chávez's life and legacy. We will feature these submissions in the next issue of Teaching to Change LA, scheduled to launch on March 31, 2003.
>> Features in this Issue
 Making the Grade
 Learning Beyond the Classroom
Karen Hunter Quartz reports on the success of an environmental charter high school that extends learning beyond the classroom walls and into the community.
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>> Fighting the Battle of the Books
Joshua fi't the battle of Jericho; and we fi't the battle of the books. At first, we had none at all. If we asked, the white folks would say that the children "wouldn't read 'em if they had 'em." We didn't think that. When the county did start to furnish books, the children had to rent them in the fall and turn them back in the spring, and we never got a new book to give out, in return for the fee. Even so, the books never would go around to everybody. Most had to look on. I'll tell you something else that I saw in my day: segregated books. The County library truck used to come around with colored and white stacks—in other words a stack of old books and a stack of new.
— Mamie Garvin Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Places
Mamie Garvin Fields taught in the sea islands off South Carolina during the first decades of the 20th century. In classrooms crowded with as many as 60 children, Mrs. Fields encouraged her students to embrace the power of education to liberate the mind and spirit ...
>> TCLA's Report Cards: Learning Materials
TEP Novice Teachers Redesign the SARC
Graduate students in UCLA's Teacher Education Program design School Accountability Report Cards that reflect LA schools' individual needs, concerns and assets.
by Jeff Duncan-Andrade
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Archived Front Page of TCLA - Vol.3, No.3 (3/23/03)
