Education

Seventh-graders work together on homework in their school library. Credit: Allison Shelley / EDUimages Mental health has been at the center of former U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy’s personal journey to recovery from addiction as well as his public career as a policymaker, author and advocate.  In 2008, while representing Rhode Island in the U.S. […]

STEM students in California community colleges will be able to enroll in calculus prerequisites like trigonometry if they didn’t take those classes in high school. Credit: James McQuillan/istock California math educators this fall have been locked in a vigorous debate: Will the implementation of a new law help more community college STEM students by skipping prerequisites

A high school student listens to a presentation by her classmate. Credit: Allison Shelley / American Education Three years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation mandating that high schools offer ethnic studies “upon appropriation,” starting in 2025-26. Now, those two words — upon appropriation — loom large. The deadline to offer a semester of ethnic

Credit: Fermin Leal / EdSource More graduates in California and nationwide will walk across the stage to receive their high school diplomas in the spring of 2025 than in more than a decade — and more than in decades to come.    The “Knocking at the College Door” report, released Wednesday by the Western Interstate Commission for

Students walking on the campus of Cal State San Marcos on Dec. 3, 2024. Credit: Amy DiPierro Diego Lopez, a student in his last year at Cal State San Marcos, gives the north San Diego County campus high marks. The Army veteran likes his classes, feels the campus is generally well-managed and appreciates that at

Two years ago, I was ready to give up everything from my old life and move 3,000 miles away to pursue journalism at San Diego State University. This meant leaving behind my friends, family and my passion for singing and performance. I was sure I would have to leave behind my musical side to focus

Students exchange ideas in a science classroom. Credit: Allison Shelley / EDUimages Teaching is often pegged as being an exhausting profession. When I first became a teacher, I was constantly exhausted by the end of the day.  As a budding teacher, I had a mentor who always brought up thought-provoking questions, allowed me to struggle

Credit: Steve Cheng, Bruin Report Online College athletes are often in the news because of their achievements on fields or in arenas, or because of the fame resulting from the Supreme Court’s 2021 decision to allow amateur athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses, or NIL.  But what is sometimes overlooked is that

Watch Gabriela Rodriguez dance at New Ballet in San Jose. Gabriela Rodriguez first glimpsed the magic of ballet in the third grade. The 7-year-old didn’t know a pirouette from a puppet when she first got tapped for the New Ballet School’s First Step program, which brings the joy of dance to low-income students in the

Theresa Montaño, a professor in Chicano/a Studies at CSU Northridge and a member of the LAUSD-UTLA Ethnic Studies Committee, is a defendant in the lawsuit. Credit: Luis Garcia / California State University, Northridge A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the United Teachers Los Angeles and the organization that created a controversial ethnic