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Hawaii Teacher: Talking Politics At Campbell High School Jared Rodriguez/Truthout.org

Hawaii Teacher: Talking Politics At Campbell High School

Students talk about rail and Ewa Beach issues with three legislators who provided lessons in contrasting styles.

UH Manoa’s College of Education Names New Dean Civil Beat file photo

UH Manoa’s College of Education Names New Dean

Nathan Murata beat out two other finalists for the job of leading the College of Education.

Disabled Job Seekers Left In Limbo By Agency’s Cash Crunch Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Disabled Job Seekers Left In Limbo By Agency’s Cash Crunch

Hawaii’s vocational rehabilitation program insists the problem is temporary, but some clients fear they’ll lose their support.

Missing School Has Become A Huge Problem in Hawaii

Missing School Has Become A Huge Problem in Hawaii

A Waianae school, where 40 percent of students are chronically absent, is trying home visits and a partnership with family court to keep kids in class.

Will Regular Classrooms Better Serve Hawaii’s Special Ed Students? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Will Regular Classrooms Better Serve Hawaii’s Special Ed Students?

Co-teaching — classrooms with both a general and special-ed teacher — is catching on in a state that has one of the lowest “inclusion” rates in the nation.

Can School Gardens Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Can School Gardens Get Kids To Eat Their Vegetables?

More than 80 percent of Hawaii schools have some kind of garden, part of a booming, nationwide farm-to-school movement.

OHA Money Will Go Directly To Hawaiian Charter Schools Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2017

OHA Money Will Go Directly To Hawaiian Charter Schools

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ board vote reversed an earlier decision to use a third party to distribute the funds.

Study: Living In Hawaii Can Make You Less Prejudiced Olivia Peterkin/Civil Beat

Study: Living In Hawaii Can Make You Less Prejudiced

A new UH study found that after nine months of living on Oahu, mainland students’ views on race shifted noticeably.

Hawaii Teacher: Getting Legislators To My Democracy Class Wasn’t Easy Courtesy of Erin Yagi

Hawaii Teacher: Getting Legislators To My Democracy Class Wasn’t Easy

I wanted my Campbell High students to hear firsthand from their legislators, but only Matt LoPresti answered the call.

Educators: Pidgin Belongs In Hawaii Schools Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Educators: Pidgin Belongs In Hawaii Schools

The language that emerged from Hawaii鈥檚 blending of cultures 鈥渋s something we have to embrace,鈥 says a high school principal.