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  • What We Talk About When We Talk About the Achievement Gap

    By Mario Koran San Diego Unified Superintendent Cindy Marten has a dream. A dream where one day all students will have equitable access to educational opportunities, no matter the color of their skin. Where they will be judged not by the score of their tests, but by what they can contribute to society. But for…

  • Students to Begin Citywide Sidewalk Survey Next Month

    3400 block of Marlborough Avenue in the city of San Diego. | Photo Credit: Joe Austin, courtesy of The Stumblr. By Liam Dillon By the middle of next month, the city of San Diego will unleash two dozen local college students onto its sidewalks. They’re part of a $1 million study to document San Diego’s…

  • Second Opinion: What Does Obamacare Mean for My Paycheck?

    Jeff Schoellerman, a San Diego neuroscientist, is curious if the Affordable Care Act will eventually have an effect on what we pay toward Medicare and disability out of our paychecks. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego. By Megan Burks Second Opinion is a weekly Q-and-A series that answers questions from San…

  • Monroe Clark Middle Goes Green With Campus Garden

    A new community garden at Monroe Clark already is bearing fruit…er, vegetables.| Photo Credit: Christina Chomut By Julia Richardson Haga clic aquí para leerlo en Español At first glance, photography and gardening may not appear to have much in common. But at Monroe Clark Middle School in City Heights, an effort aimed at having students…

  • Local Men Receive Federal Prison Terms for Sending Money to Al-Shabab

    Mohamed Mohamud and Issa Doreh are shown in this 2010 courtroom drawing by Krentz Johnson. By Amita Sharma A San Diego federal judge sentenced three local men to prison Monday for raising money for the terror group al-Shabab which he described as responsible for “murder, mayhem and bombings” in East Africa. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey…