Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a...
How Talented Kids From Low-Income Families Become 'Lost Einsteins'
Innovation is widely viewed as the engine of economic growth. To maximize innovation and growth, all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors. But a study we recently conducted, jointly with Neviana Petkova of the U.S. Treasury, paints a very different picture. We found that a...
California Schools That Need Help Aren't Getting It: Walters
In his Jan. 21 CALmatters column, Dan Walters zeroes in on a troubling statistic uncovered via the dogged effort of his colleague Jessica Calefati, who covers education. Writing about the state's stumbling attempts to close the achievement and educational attainment gaps, Walters quotes this paragraph from Celefati's Jan. 18 story "Dozens of...
California Schools That Need Help Aren't Getting It: Walters
In his Jan. 21 CALmatters column, Dan Walters zeroes in on a troubling statistic uncovered via the dogged effort of his colleague Jessica Calefati, who covers education. Writing about the state's stumbling attempts to close the achievement and educational attainment gaps, Walters quotes this paragraph from Celefati's Jan. 18 story "Dozens of...
Ashjian Can Be His Own Worst Enemy. And a Student's Best Friend
Brooke Ashjian is not the simple attention seeking politician that some of his critics assume him to be. Rather, he's a complicated man largely shaped by a hard-scrabble upbringing, his Mormon religion, Armenian heritage and strong embrace of the First Amendment. He has said a thousand things I wouldn't say....
Ashjian Can Be His Own Worst Enemy. And a Student's Best Friend
Brooke Ashjian is not the simple attention seeking politician that some of his critics assume him to be. Rather, he's a complicated man largely shaped by a hard-scrabble upbringing, his Mormon religion, Armenian heritage and strong embrace of the First Amendment. He has said a thousand things I wouldn't say....
Never Forget: Fresno Students Learn About The Shoah
The Shoah. It is the Hebrew term to describe the Holocaust. It is a time to never forget the six million Jews and six million others who perished at the hands of the Nazis in World War II. At Fresno High School, a Holocaust exhibit from the Simon Wiesenthal Center...
Never Forget: Fresno Students Learn About The Shoah
The Shoah. It is the Hebrew term to describe the Holocaust. It is a time to never forget the six million Jews and six million others who perished at the hands of the Nazis in World War II. At Fresno High School, a Holocaust exhibit from the Simon Wiesenthal Center...
Joseph Castro talks Chavez, Rate Hikes, Critics
Fresno State President Dr. Joseph Castro spent a few minutes with GV Wire at today's garlanding ceremony for Cesar Chavez. We discussed what Chavez meant in his life, news of Fresno State's economic impact to the Valley, recent news of tuition hikes and even Castro being heckled by a passer...
Joseph Castro talks Chavez, Rate Hikes, Critics
Fresno State President Dr. Joseph Castro spent a few minutes with GV Wire at today's garlanding ceremony for Cesar Chavez. We discussed what Chavez meant in his life, news of Fresno State's economic impact to the Valley, recent news of tuition hikes and even Castro being heckled by a passer...