Examinations

One candidate a positive force After attending the presentation of school board candidates at La Cañada High School, we decided to have a coffee in our home for Ernest Koeppen, and were more convinced than ever that he would be an excellent school...

Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, La Cañada native Monica Mello joins Teach For America's corps this fall with the goal of seeing each of her 10th-grade students pass the California exit exam. Mello will be one of 290 corps members...

The La Cañada Thursday Club on Sunday screened “In 500 Words or Less,” an award-winning documentary on the college application process, to a packed room of parents and high school juniors and seniors. Applying to college is a rite of...

Test results released Monday revealed only modest changes in overall student performance in Pasadena, South Pasadena and San Marino public schools since 2010, though a handful of individual schools made significant gains. The state’s Standards...

The test scores are in and the results look good: La Cañada Unified School District continues to hold second place among districts in the state, according to data released Wednesday by the California Department of Education. With a Growth Academic...

Wendy Sinnette’s contract to take over as La Cañada Unified School District’s superintendent after Supt. Jim Stratton retires July 31, was approved unanimously at a special board meeting on Monday. The base salary for Sinette’s new...

Column's headlines inspire him The titles of Dr. Joe Puglia's columns catch my eye. A few years ago he wrote of his boyhood nun, Sr. Jean, and it reminded me of my 8th-grade nun Sr. Jean Dolores. Dr. Joe's article spurred me to communicate with her and...

There were no surprises for La Cañada Unified School District when the California High School Exit Examination results were released on Tuesday, August 24. The data showed the district matched its results from the previous year in both math and English-...

John Petersen and his family moved to La Cañada five years ago. He came here, primarily because of the city's great schools. But today he's concerned about those schools, and with the growing class sizes within the La Cañada Unified School District....

A Sunday Los Angeles Times article has sparked debate across California about whether teachers should be evaluated based on their students' test scores. The article collected data over a seven-year span and analyzed more than 6,000 elementary school...

Washington County Public Schools is offering SAT prep videos on Antietam Cable’s channel 99, Assistant Superintendent Donna Hanlin said. During a briefing to the school board May 15 about the Class of 2012’s status regarding SATs and the High...

The Chicago area has numerous schools with MBA programs, including two — University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management — whose business schools continue to rank among the best in...