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Santa Barbara District Hires Special-Ed Director
She is chairwoman of the Education Department at Antioch University. Prior positions include director of student teaching and field placements at California Lutheran University; coordinator for the Comprehensive Teacher Education Institute and learning disabilities specialist in the Disabled Students Program at UCSB; faculty member in the Special Education Department at California State University Northridge; and education specialist with the Special Education Resource Network of the California State Department of Education. -- Noozhawk
Father, son bond over photography awards
While attending California State University, Northridge, Ken continued pursuing journalism and photography — which opened doors for a copywriter position — allowing him to work at the Los Angeles Times. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
The wrenching struggle to define critical race theory at one Orange County school district
Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge who helped craft an early draft of the state’s ethnic studies curriculum, was not surprised to hear that officials couldn’t settle on a definition of critical race theory. School boards looking to ban the concept are often “responding to a body politic that’s attacking critical race theory, but they have no knowledge of what it is,” she said. “Bans have become a means to “attack some of the civil rights gains like ethnic studies, like anti-racist education.” --Times News Network
Wrenching struggle to define critical race theory divides an Orange County school district
Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge who helped craft an early draft of the state's ethnic studies curriculum, was not surprised to hear that officials couldn't settle on a definition of critical race theory. School boards looking to ban the concept are often "responding to a body politic that's attacking critical race theory, but they have no knowledge of what it is," she said. "Bans have become a means to "attack some of the civil rights gains like ethnic studies, like anti-racist education." --Yahoo! News
Wrenching struggle to define critical race theory divides an Orange County school district
Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge who helped craft an early draft of the state’s ethnic studies curriculum, was not surprised to hear that officials couldn’t settle on a definition of critical race theory. School boards looking to ban the concept are often “responding to a body politic that’s attacking critical race theory, but they have no knowledge of what it is,” she said. “Bans have become a means to “attack some of the civil rights gains like ethnic studies, like anti-racist education.” --The Los Angeles Times
Your ultimate guide to live holiday entertainment around SoCal
‘Nochebuena: Christmas Eve in Mexico’
With Ballet Folklórico de Los Ángeles and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéller. Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya), 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. Free; RSVP required. (818) 677-8800. thesoraya.org --The Los Angeles Times
CSUN Prof Finds Teachers Reticent to Talk About Racism in American Heartland
That conversation, coupled with the increasing diversity of communities across America, led California State University, Northridge child and adolescent development professor Virginia Huynh and a team of researchers to begin a study to see how teachers are approaching the subjects of race and inequality with their students, particularly students in kindergarten to eighth grade. --The San Fernando Valley Sun
Column: Former football coach Jim Fenwick battling through second bone-marrow transplant
Fenwick, 69, spent 46 years as a coach and administrator. He was head coach at Cal State Northridge, Eastern Oregon, Pierce and Valley. He was an assistant at Miami (Ohio), New Mexico, Pacific and Occidental College. There are so many former players who would have gladly volunteered to donate bone marrow if that would have helped. But it was family once again that Fenwick turned to. --The Los Angeles Times
Ex-Clovis West standout Tess Amundsen scores 31 pts, leads CSUN to win over Fresno State
Amundsen, a junior at CSUN and a former standout at Clovis West High School, scored a game-high 31 points in leading the Matadors to an 81-75 win over the Bulldogs. She was 10-of-17 shooting, 4-of-6 from three-point range. --YourCentralValley.com
Rainbow Wahine volleyball can clinch Big West title and NCAA Tournament spot with one win in final two matches this weekend
UH will play host to CSUN on Friday and UC Santa Barbara on Saturday with a chance to add to the already planned party of Senior Night for Brooke Van Sickle, Skyler Williams and Janelle Gong. --KHON 2