All posts tagged "students"

  • Los Angeles-area students head back to school at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. Students are heading back to class a day after an emailed threat triggered a shutdown of the vast Los Angeles Unified School District. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
    Los Angeles schools reopen after threat

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest on schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District reopening after a threat (all times local): 10:05 a.m. A former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism says threatening emails sent...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Clockwise, from top left: Suzy, Junior, Yoon Park, Ock Taec-yeon (JYP Entertainment)
    K-pop stars, actors cheer on college entrance test takers

    Students taking college entrance exams Thursday in South Korea have the support of K-pop stars and actors. JYP Entertainment uploaded to its social media accounts photos of its talents — Miss A’s Suzy, 2PM’s Ock Taec-yeon, Yoon...

    • Posted November 11, 2015
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  • tudents at Yonhi Middle School in Seoul learn about sexual slavery during World War II with study material produced by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, Tuesday. The ministry put out the material to raise awareness of the issue among students. (Yonhap)
    S. Korean students learn about comfort women with new textbooks

    By Kim Se-jeong Thirty-two students at Yonhi Middle School in Seoul had a special history class on sexual slavery during World War II, using special textbooks, Tuesday. The workbooks, along with a three-minute video, were released as...

    • Posted September 22, 2015
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    SoCal students gather for a taste of the new SAT

    The event was co-organized by the Korea Times, Radio Seoul and Elite Educational Institute. Six hundred students gathered inside Cal State Fullerton Saturday for a full-length practice of the new SAT. Students from 7th to 11th grade...

    • Posted August 24, 2015
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    S. Korea out to attract more foreign students

    By Jung Min-ho The government is seeking to increase the number of international students studying here from 84,000 last year to 200,000 by 2023, by pledging to make universities more foreigner-friendly. At a Cabinet meeting, Tuesday, the...

    • Posted July 8, 2015
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    Three Korean American students named US Presidential Scholars

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Three Korean American high school students were named U.S. Presidential Scholars by the National YoungArts Foundation Monday. The students — Jennifer Choi of Palos Verdes High School in Rancho Palos...

    • Posted May 5, 2015
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  • First graders attend an elementary school entrance ceremony in Seoul on March 2, 2015. (Yonhap)
    3 out of 10 students experience bullying in S. Korea

    By Kim Se-jeong More than 30 percent of students in South Korean elementary, middle and high schools are victims of bullying, according to a study released Thursday. The data was gathered by the Korea Institute for Health...

    • Posted March 19, 2015
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