Tag: Education

  • From Gang Member To College Student With Positive Peer Influence

    By Padma Nagappan Published April 20, 2011 on Photo Credit: Padma Nagappan   A free college readiness program in City Heights is helping inner-city high school students become the first in their families to go to college. The program has enabled many teenagers to overcome troubled backgrounds, gang involvement and drug habits and turn their…

  • San Diego Students Get Wired With Broadband Grant

    By Kyla Calvert Published April 13, 2011 on Students at 10 schools across San Diego will get netbooks with 3G wireless internet access for use at home and school. San Diego Unified was one of 20 school districts across the country to win one of the pilot Learning-On-The-Go grants from the Federal Communication Commission. Students at…

  • Kids Make the Next Move, and the Next, and the Next

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Emily Alpert Published April 3, 2011 on Ten-year-old Elizabeth Padilla has been the new girl over and over, at school after school around City Heights. First there was Central Elementary for kindergarten. Then Carver. Then Euclid. Then the landlord upped the rent and her mother went to find another apartment.…