http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16963 Now that logging no longer provides enough money to support Oregon’s libraries, Pepper Trail says it’s up to citizens to decide to keep their state’s bookshelves filled and accessible. No publisher Pepper Trail public lands education Self-Determination tax base quality of life public libraries Logging communities Oregon socio-economics Communities Socio-economics books Forest Service taxes rural communities Bureau of Land Management logging communities Secure Rural Schools and Community budgets 2010-02-05T09:43:08Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/338/16777 Judge Jim Redden is right to push the Bush administration on salmon restoration, but fish may end up faring as poorly in courtrooms as San Francisco’s schoolchildren did after well-intentioned decisions on busing. No publisher John Mecklin busing integration San Francisco dam breaching education Dams and water supply Snake River dams sockeye lawsuits Salmon Judiciary Water California endangered species dam removal salmon judiciary legal decisions Chinese-American students James Redden projects lower school system Politics African-Ameri Education 2010-08-26T23:09:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/345/16966 Tiny Vilas, Colo., thought it was a great idea to open an online school and enroll at-risk students from far-away Denver – but neither the students nor the school district ended up scoring well at report card time No publisher Samuel Western Hope Online Academy Colorado Idaho student enrollment students online teaching Baca at-risk County schools Idaho Distance Education Academy poverty Springfield rural communities Deary Communities Bill Gates education Vilas RE-5 school district 2010-08-06T21:26:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/California-schoolkids-learn-from-fire-damaged-forest A rural California school builds an innovative curriculum around a nearby forest and the fire that burned it down in 2007. No publisher Jane Braxton Little Greenville High School wildfires ecology Plumas National Forest forest health Sidney Deschenes Moonlight Fire education 2011-02-16T15:33:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17090 Alan Kesselheim goes back to college as a teacher and delights in the wide-ranging discussions he has with young people. No publisher Alan Kesselheim College teaching youth discussion education 2010-02-05T09:43:38Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17295 David Madrid has become a student again, a 30-year-old former dropout now eagerly working for his high school diploma. No publisher David Madrid David Madrid high school diploma drop outs Latinos education 2010-02-05T09:44:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/fast-times-at-californias-petroleum-high/inside-taft-high Teacher Ted Pendergrass and his students take us inside the first high school in the country devoted to oil production. No publisher Molly Samuel Taft, California High Country Views oil education podcast 2011-02-15T17:35:06Z Audio http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16286 In Preserving Western History, editor Andrew Gulliford has put together "the first college reader to address public history in the American West." No publisher Dave Phillips Preserving Western History Andrew Gulliford anthologies readers college textbooks Western history Sacajewea Sally McBeth Thomas Patin scenery national parks tourism education Sand Creek Massacre Santa Fe Fiesta Route 66 travel vacations 2011-11-12T01:02:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/how-can-woofers-stay-on-the-farm Young people are eager to serve as unpaid interns on organic farms, but translating their dreams into a real, self-supporting lifestyle is proving harder. No publisher Dev Carey wwoof.org farmers rural life organic farms Farm interns sustainable lifestyles sustainability straw-bale building education agriculture 2011-10-14T15:37:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/312/15972 Award-winning author Denise Chavez created the Border Book Festival, and founded a Cultural Center in Mesilla, N.M., to help heal the cultural wounds of the U.S.-Mexico border No publisher Susan J. Tweit Western Culture Denise Chavez Cultural Center of Mesilla Las Cruces New Mexico writers authors novelists culture education art La Frontera U.S.-Mexico border poor communities cultural interaction Emerging Voices workshops Tony Hillerman Sandra Cisneros A 2010-02-05T08:56:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/264/14438 Bruce Gordon started his nonprofit EcoFlight in Aspen, Colo., to take kids out of the classroom and let them see environmental issues from above, in his Cessna 210 No publisher Josh Garrett-Davis Environmental EcoFlight Lighthawk environmental groups education airplanes pilots Cessna 210 Western Colorado Bruce Gordon Advocacy Groups 2010-02-05T09:55:36Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16310 Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America is the story of Rose Castillo Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley No publisher Stephen J. Lyons Agriculture Crops Immigrants Rose Castillo Guilbault Farmworker’s Daughter Mexican immigrants life stories memoir autobiography agricultural laborers California agriculture garlic picking education cultural clash homesickness Mexico Pepperdine University American cultur 2011-11-11T23:35:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/fast-times-at-californias-petroleum-high A day in the life of the U.S.'s first high school academy devoted to oil production. No publisher Jeremy Miller Greenville High School wildfires ecology Plumas National Forest forest health Sidney Deschenes Moonlight Fire education 2011-02-14T15:52:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17052 As teacher Phil Brick travels the West with 21 of his students, he encourages them to ask difficult questions about environmental issues. No publisher Phil Brick Whitman College environmental issues education public lands salmon logging 2010-02-05T09:43:29Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/348/17062 As teacher Phil Brick travels the West with 21 of his students, he encourages them to ask difficult questions about environmental issues No publisher Phil Brick lands logging salmon environmental issues education public Whitman College 2010-07-30T18:48:22Z News Article