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2008
 | Advancements in technology create ample opportunity to engage students, to teach (and reinforce) basic lessons and advanced concepts. Many educators in California—the home, after all, of Silicon Valley and the broader technological revolution—are showing the way. |
In This Issue
If the need for more and better school health services seems obvious, solutions do not. There is no basic template that will work for school districts and county offices large and small, urban and rural, rich and poor.
Contrary to the model, the broad Asian/Pacific Islander category includes thousands of Californian students whose parents have little formal education and who are themselves struggling in school, speak little or no English, lack access to health care and live in poverty.
Departments
Scott P. Plotkin is the executive director of the California School Boards Association.
Brian Taylor is managing editor of California Schools.
Joseph A. Aguerrebere, Ed.D., is president and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Statndards.
Saturday classes at the Folsom Cordova Unified School District helps keep immigrant students connected to their roots.
The Monterey County Office of Education gives truants a place to connect.