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Education Insight: From High School to College: Inside the Dual Enrollment Movement
About This Episode Season 3. Episode 6. In this enlightening episode, we delve into the world of Dual Enrollment, an educational pathway that opens doors to remarkable opportunities for high school students. Join us as we unravel the intricacies of this program, shedding light on its significance, benefits, local initiatives, and future prospects. Our esteemed…
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Education Insight: Where Policy Helps and Hurts Local Education
About This Episode Season 3. Episode 5. In the Inland Empire, our students count on teachers and administrators to help them make it to graduation. But in fact, they, our whole community, are counting on legislators to create good education policies. Policy that makes the road to graduation equitable, affordable, and possible. Are the policies…
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Education Insight: Celebrating Local Educational Success
About This Episode Season 3. Episode 4. Last month, a number of people in the Inland Empire were honored for extraordinary achievements in Inland Empire education. This week, we’d like you to meet a few of them. How does it feel to be recognized as the teacher or administrator of the year? What does an…
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Education Insight: Positive and Negative Impacts of AI in Local Education and Economy
About This Episode Season 3. Episode 3. Artificial Intelligence has landed in the Inland Empire; allowing high school students to explore Egypt or China in virtual reality. It is helping pre-med students learn surgery with overlay vision that shows them where to make incisions and it’s making local logistic hubs more efficient. But two top…
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Education Insight: How Education Changes Lives
About This Episode Season 3. Episode 2. Most of us look at school as a path to get us to a dream we already have. But here in the Inland Empire, it’s common for students to be introduced to interesting experiences or careers that they never even thought about. This week we meet a former:…
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Education Insight: Wraparound Supports and Student Success
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 11. This episode has little to do with classroom lessons but everything to do with local student success. In the aftermath of the pandemic, we now have more local college students of all ages living in cars, arriving hungry, facing transportation issues, and needing physical and mental health services….
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Education Insight: The Power of Together
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 10. This past month the Toward A Shared Vision education summit was held at the Riverside Convention center. It was aimed at bringing education leaders from Inland Southern California together to collaborate and in many cases to put those who come from different colleges and universities or K-12 in…
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Education Insight: Fighting For Your Education
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 9. This week we’re talking with two women who fought relentlessly for their education. As a daughter of migrant farm workers, Avisinia Rodriguez spent much of her childhood in the Oasis Trailer Park community in the Coachella Valley. Today, Dr. Rodriguez is the Assistant Dean at the Cal State…
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Education Insight: Supporting Student Mental Health
About This Episode Season 2. Episode 8. The last few years have been tumultuous for everyone. From lockdowns, drought, protests, shootings, bullies, a global pandemic, and politics. But no one has been hit harder by these issues than our kids. They have become the #1 group to commit suicide or a mass shooting, and as…
