Francisca Angulo-Olaiz is a research scientist at the Public Health Institute, a non-profit health research organization based in Oakland. She is currently working to develop a sexuality curriculum for high school students. Before joining our panel on teen pregnancy, she sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.
After the Los Angeles Times made public a database of “value-added” rankings — which measure teacher performance by student test scores — the question of what makes a strong teacher became a controversial one. Below, ahead of Zocalo’s panel asking whether teacher rankings work, three education scholars tell us what single measure best captures a teacher’s performance.
In the past two decades, teenage birth rates in California have dropped by half — to a record low of 35.2 births per 1,000 teens, aged 15 to 19, said Emily Bazar, a senior writer for The California HealthCare Foundation’s Center for Health Reporting at USC.
Without the decline, she said to the full house at downtown L.A.’s Artshare, “There would have been an additional 52,685 babies born in 2009 in California.”
Don Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood, whom he met on the beach in Santa Monica. They remained together until Isherwood’s death. A film about their relationship, titled “Chris & Don: A Love Story”, was released in 2008. Mr. Bachardy is a painter whose works reside in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Huntington Library. Below, he takes our In The Green Room Q&A.
Sara S. “Sue” Hodson is the curator of literary manuscripts for The Huntington Library, overseeing all British and American literary manuscripts, from the Renaissance to the present. These collections include Christopher Isherwood’s papers. Before taking the stage to talk about Isherwood’s life and work in Los Angeles, Hodson took our In The Green Room Q&A.
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