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Kids shouldn't be forced to leave their homes in hopes of a better future.

Pasadena Weekly | Randy Jurado Ertll | 11-13-2012 | Education

Pasadena College Board Bucks the School’s President, Hoping to Find Alternatives to Closurenew

The board of directors of Pacific Oaks College, which was considering closing the 63-year-old Pasadena institution, has apparently bucked the will of its president in taking two major steps to save the school during a marathon meeting last Thursday.

Pasadena Weekly | Marc B. Haefele | 01-26-2009 | Education

Tags: Education, economic issues, Pacific Oaks College

Single-Sex Schools Test the Limits of Equal Opportunity in Public Educationnew

New Village Charter High is part of a national mini-boom in single-sex public education. Many of the single-sex schools across the nation have opened in the past three years, thanks to federal regulations that have effectively loosened non-discrimination laws that had often barred their operation.

Pasadena Weekly | Elizabeth Zwerling | 01-12-2009 | Education

Tags: Education, New Village Charter High School, single-sex schools

Turning Bikes into Wheelchairs for Some of the World's Neediest Peoplenew

Some students and recent graduates of Caltech and the Art Center College of Design have found a way to turn simple mountain bikes into inexpensive, effective and potentially lifesaving wheelchairs for disabled people in the world's poorest countries.

Pasadena Weekly | Joe Piasecki | 07-08-2008 | Education

Tags: Education, bicycles, design, international, Caltech, wheelchairs, Intelligent Mobility International, product design, the Art Center College of Design