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		<title>Sleep study a dream story for high school papers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study on sleep deprivation is big news for high school students and a big story opportunity for high school journalists. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports that nearly 70 percent of high schoolers don&#8217;t get enough shuteye on school nights. And when they don&#8217;t, they&#8217;re more likely than their well-rested counterparts to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/news/2011/09/29/sleep-study-a-dream-story-for-high-school-papers/</link>
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		<title>Growing 1st Amendment support among social media-savvy students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new survey of more than 12,000 high school students and 900 teachers shows improving support for First Amendment rights, a connection between use of social media and appreciation for the First Amendment, and limited teacher support for free expression by students. The national survey &#8211; the fourth since 2004 &#8211; was conducted by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/news/2011/09/20/growing-support-for-1st-amendment-among-social-media-savvy-students/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight on Reynolds Institute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sofia Denise Marie Close is a 25-year teaching veteran in her fourth year at Middle College High School, an award-winning campus within a campus at Contra Costa Community College in San Pablo. Her students have launched Panthers Present, a web-based news site for the campus. Here, she recounts her experience at this summer&#8217;s Reynolds Journalism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/top-stories/2011/09/19/spotlight-on-reynolds-institute/</link>
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		<title>Honest journalism begets a better democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sofia Denise Marie Close, Middle College High School, San Pablo Social responsibility clearly comes to the forefront in the conversation regarding how we as a society engage in communication through media and the practice of democracy. Time moves on and so human habits and our dependency on tools to further improve our lifestyles changes frequently. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confused about going online? Here&#8217;s a road map.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you itching to move your journalism program into the 21st century? Has your print budget evaporated, leaving you wondering how you&#8217;ll deliver the news even if you can&#8217;t deliver a paper? It&#8217;s time to go online. Don&#8217;t panic. It&#8217;s not that hard. Plenty have others have plowed the same ground, and the Journalism Education [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/tips/2011/09/01/confused-about-going-online-heres-a-road-map/</link>
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		<title>For student journalists, the first clear look at school dropout rates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The state Department of Education has handed high school journalists a golden opportunity to do innovative reporting that hits home with students, teachers, administrators and parents alike. For perhaps the first time, the state has accurate figures on graduation and dropout rates at the school, district, county and statewide levels. That means student journalists can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An offer for teachers at a price that can&#8217;t be beat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Could you use journalism curriculum from dozens of experienced advisers? How about gigabytes worth? And free. Just email Steve O&#8217;Donoghue at the California Scholastic Journalism Initiative. Put “free curriculum” in the subject line and your name, school, and email address in the body. In return, Steve will answer back with a link to a Dropbox folder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/tips/2011/08/17/an-offer-for-teachers-at-a-price-that-cant-be-beat/</link>
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		<title>New report measures improvement of UC-Berkeley, other J-schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report measures the success of a $6 million foundation campaign to improve journalism programs at six universities, including UC-Berkeley and the University of Southern California. The report is an outgrowth of a report six years earlier by the Carnegie Corporation and Knight Foundation that posed a series of questions about how well major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/news/2011/08/15/new-report-measures-improvement-of-j-schools-including-berkeley-and-usc/</link>
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		<title>Scholastic journalism &#8212; challenged but undaunted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Steve O&#8217;Donoghue, Director California Scholastic Journalism Initiative Somewhere on the way to improving education in America, we threw out the baby with the bathwater. For near two centuries the United States embraced a liberal education model that valued art, music, drama, literature, thought and . . . journalism. Thanks to millions of immigrants (especially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/commentary/2011/08/15/scholastic-journalism-challenged-but-undaunted/</link>
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		<title>Student journalist, accused of trespassing, ordered to write essay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A UC-Berkeley videographer arrested while covering a campus protest two years ago has been ordered to produce a five-page essay describing how the university can improve its policies for dealing with student journalists. Josh Wolf, who served seven months in federal prison in 2007 for refusing to reveal sources during a protest in San Francisco, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.caljournalism.org/news/2011/05/13/student-journalist-accused-of-trespassing-ordered-to-write-essay/</link>
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