Education

Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource Nearly a quarter of California’s K-12 students missed several weeks’ worth of school during the 2022-23 school year — a decrease of 5 percentage points in chronic absenteeism from the previous school year, but a sign of the lingering effects of the pandemic. Even as schools re-opened for in-person instruction, […]

A teacher’s aide sits with a kindergartner on the first day of school at George Washington Elementary School in Lodi Unified. Diana Lambert In today’s world, families have numerous school choices for their children and often rely on the experiences of neighbors, family and friends for advice. Families’ perceptions of the school — how they

Police and protesters faced off on May 31, 2024, at UC Santa Cruz. Credit: Photo by Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz Civil rights groups representing two students and one professor are suing the University of California Santa Cruz, alleging that the campus unlawfully banned students and faculty from campus last spring after they participated

A teach-in on Palestine at Cal State Long Beach on May 2, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Ben Huff California State University, Long Beach is facing accusations that a policy limiting amplified sound on campus violates free speech rights and has been selectively enforced to single out faculty members who criticized the university.  The American Civil

CREDIT: Flickr/Alberto-G Ten Los Angeles Unified School District community schools will be given an opportunity to pilot new approaches to assessments in the 2025-26 academic year.  And once the schools adopt alternative assessments, they won’t have to participate in standardized tests, other than those mandated by state and federal governments, the district school board decided

Credit: Ashley Hopkinson/EdSource In 2014, the California State Board of Education adopted the evidence-based and standards-driven English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework (ELA/ELD Framework) — nonbinding guidance that encourages the implementation of a research-informed, comprehensive literacy approach for all students. The framework was the first in the nation to integrate two sets of standards: English

Students on the campus at Cal State LA. Credit: Erik Adams / EdSource Faculty, staff and students at four campuses in the Cal State system said they’re starting to feel the impact of belt-tightening in the early weeks of the 2024-25 school year, saying this fall has brought heavier workloads, larger class sizes and fewer

Students study at Cal State LA library. Larry Gordon/EdSource My academic career was delayed and nearly derailed by ADHD, and I didn’t have a clue.  I started my academic journey in 2002. At the time, I had a 2-year-old son with another child on the way. I enrolled at the University of New Mexico and,

A student in Oakland’s Skyline High School’s Education and Community Health Pathway sculpts a clay model of the endocrine system. Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education In June 2022, the California Legislature decided to invest a half billion dollars into the Golden State Pathways Program, a career and college preparation program that Gov. Gavin Newsom

Stockton Unified Superintendent Michelle Rodriguez talks about how she arrived at her goals and plans for improving student achievement. Credit: Lasherica Thornton/ EdSource Stockton Unified, a mostly poverty-stricken community in San Joaquin County, has become known for its legal troubles, financial issues and superintendent turnover, which have, for years, distracted the low-performing school district from