Education

Gov. Gavin Newsom joins Chief Service Officer Josh Fryday and higher education leaders at a College Corps swearing-in celebration. Credit: Office of the Governor In 2022, the state launched the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps program. Spread across 45 campuses throughout the state, the program is designed to help college students pay for their schooling in exchange […]

A sixth grade math teacher helps two students during a lesson about math and music. Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education Becoming a public school teacher is a calling. It’s incredible to see students learn and grow and achieve their dreams. Many see this as a rewarding career and want to pursue it, which raises

The Student Services Center at Chico State. Credit: Jason Halley / Chico State Unprecedented difficulties in students applying for federal financial aid have wreaked havoc among financial aid and admissions officers across California’s colleges and universities, who are facing longer hours and more stress, sometimes while short on staff. Since its initial delay last year

First graders at Frank Sparkes Elementary in Merced County write about how they would spend their money. Credit: Zaidee Stavely / EdSource Two years ago, California launched an innovative program to help children from low-income families save for their future education. Enrollment in the program, known as CalKIDS, began for all newborn babies and eligible

A student performs a poem at the quarterfinals of the 12th annual Get Lit Classic Slam. Photo Credit: CJ Calica Salome Agbaroji wrote her first poem, a rap, in the second grade, and she’s been crafting rhymes ever since. Now the 18-year-old Harvard student is best known as the nation’s youth poet laureate.  “I have

Credit: ShutterStock When the Covid-19 pandemic seriously disrupted the ability of students to take SATs and ACTs, many colleges and universities, including the University of California and California State University systems, either made standardized tests optional or dropped the requirement for admissions. Now, Dartmouth is the first to say that either SATs or ACTs will

An elementary student reads on his own in class. Credit: Allison Shelley for American Education A bill that would have required California teachers to use the “science of reading,” which spotlights phonics, to teach children to read has died without a hearing.  Assembly Bill 2222, authored by Assemblymember Blanca Rubio, D-Baldwin Park, will not advance

A Walnut Valley Unified teacher holds up a book during a kindergarten class. Credit: Walnut Valley Unified / Facebook An underused, little-known public school choice program allowing students to enroll in other districts that open their borders has been reauthorized six times in the past 30 years. Under a bill winding its way through the

Credit: Alison Yin / EdSource Californians remain anxious about the mental health of public school students four years after the Covid virus closed down schools, according to a new survey released Wednesday. They also indicated they’re lukewarm toward passing a statewide school construction bond. In the Public Policy Institute of California’s survey of 1,605 California

Rich Lyons, the next UC Berkeley chancellor. Credit: Courtesy of UC Berkeley Rich Lyons, UC Berkeley’s top innovation official and former business school dean, will become the next chancellor of the campus, the university announced Wednesday. Lyons, 63, an alumnus of Berkeley, will start in the role on July 1, when current chancellor Carol Christ