Scout Archives

HistoricPlacesLA is an inventory of Los Angeles's "architecturally significant buildings and places of social importances, as well as historic districts, bridges, parks, and streetscapes." This online tool was created using data from SurveyLA, through a collaboration between the City of Los Angeles and the Getty Conservation Institute. These survey data have been integrated with other resources...

Children across the globe have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic - and remediation efforts such as school closures, community lockdowns, and social distancing - in vastly different ways. These video diaries from UNICEF feature children from seven countries - South Africa, India, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the U.S., Iraq, and Italy - sharing their hopes, fears, challenges, and...

Rural school districts in the U.S. face persistent challenges in finding and keeping qualified teachers. This 30-minute documentary, produced by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest and Detroit Public Television, explores "research on teacher preparation and recruitment across the country," and "actions that state and local education leaders are taking to recruit and retain teachers."...

Given that the effects of climate change - wildfires, flooding, stronger hurricanes, more frequent droughts - are already being felt in our lives, what can our societies do to stave off even more extreme consequences? From The Economist (previously featured in the 03-25-2016 Scout Report), To a Lesser Degree is an eight-part podcast series on "the technologies, the adaptation and the politics...

Deaf people often face steeper barriers to success in college and employment than hearing people. The National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC) exists to close these educational and employment gaps by supporting deaf students as they leave high school. This site offers free, useful resources that will be valuable to deaf students and their families, and to college administrators and...