Shanley Rhodes

2 months ago | latimes.com | Shanley Rhodes

We shared our first kiss while studying poetry in the foothills of the Rockies. “I’ll move anywhere with you,” I declared one year later. “Anywhere except L.A.” After a childhood on the suburban edges of a Midwestern prairie, I wanted big sky and mountains almost as much as I wanted Domi. But he won out, and we ended up here in his hometown. Domi had wooed me well. Now he wanted Los Angeles to seduce me. He showered me with scarves and necklaces as we perused the trendy Melrose Avenue shops.

Mar 25, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Jessie Gomez |Yesenia Robles |Shanley Rhodes |Alex Zimmerman

Suscríbase al boletín gratuito de Chalkbeat Newark para mantenerse al día con el sistema de escuelas públicas de la ciudad. Read in English. Más de la mitad de las escuelas públicas de Newark ya no están designadas como de bajo rendimiento o que necesitan apoyo luego de una revisión estatal de las escuelas de alta pobreza. Este año, 20 escuelas de Newark salieron de las designaciones estatales para escuelas que necesitaban apoyo debido al bajo rendimiento de los estudiantes, entre otros criterios.

Mar 25, 2024 | chalkbeat.org | Yesenia Robles |Shanley Rhodes |Alex Zimmerman |Amelia Pak-Harvey

Read in English. Este año escolar ha sido abrumador para los maestros como Joel Mollman. Mollman, un maestro enfocado en desarrollar el idioma inglés en la Escuela Media Hamilton en Denver, ha tenido que hacerse cargo de más responsabilidades con la creciente cantidad de estudiantes que necesitan aprender inglés. En años anteriores, por ejemplo, su escuela quizás recibía tres estudiantes al mes que necesitaban ser evaluados para verificar su nivel de inglés.

Mar 25, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Shanley Rhodes

Each year when June came around, a handful of my students faced a dilemma: Knock out those last assignments, or extend their high school career one more semester. These young adults had no time to lose. With many already bringing up kids of their own, they scraped together what they could to buy groceries and pay rent. Many claimed gangs. All had abandoned or been abandoned by traditional schools in their South or East Los Angeles neighborhoods and now attended our one-room alternative high school.

Sep 5, 2023 | chalkbeat.org | Matt Barnum |Shanley Rhodes |Alex Zimmerman |Amelia Pak-Harvey

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.  There remains a startling disconnect between the public’s perception of American schools versus parents’ views of their own child’s education, according to the latest polling data from Gallup. Americans’ views of the country’s schools have continued to fall, with just 36% saying they’re satisfied with U.S. education.