Things have changed a lot in public education since the days when my grandmother Edna Towle — with only an eighth grade education — was hired as a teacher for several years in the late 1890s for a one-room school in the Spenceville area of eastern Nevada County.
When 25,000 Manteca Unified students and their parents hear that first bell on Monday . . .
PERSPECTIVE
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Nothing is more bizarre than Californians mocking Californians for being Californians -
Stuff the Bus: A Christmas ‘toy’ wish of a 7th grade boy is something I’ll never forget -
The ‘next big thing’ in Ripon is now under construction today in Manteca -
Our education and what we learn is sum total of the good, the bad, and the ugly