Jane Meredith Adams
Jane was a senior reporter covering student health at EdSource Today. Her work with data journalist John C. Osborn on “How Vaccinated are California Kindergarteners” won first place in data reporting from the Education Writers Association in 2014. Jane is a former staff reporter for the Boston Globe. She is also the co-author of The Last Time I Wore a Dress (Putnam/Riverhead), the story of a teenage girl’s journey through the mental health system. The book won a Lambda Literary Award. Previously, she was a contributing editor at Health and Parenting. She has reported for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Baltimore Sun and other publications. Prior to joining EdSource, she worked for five years at a K-8 school in Oakland. She holds an A.B. in government from Harvard University and an M.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Writing from San Francisco State University. She has been a USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellow.
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Quick Guide: What schools and parents need to know about California’s vaccination law
Proposed changes to California's 2015 vaccination law now being considered in the Legislature would limit medical exemptions.
Jane Meredith Adams And Diana Lambert
June 20, 2019
Can we talk? Schools try to wrest cell phones from students' hands
Cell phones and social media can leave teenagers depressed and isolated, new research has found. Some schools are encouraging students to put down their phones and talk to each other.
Jane Meredith Adams
October 1, 2017
Vinnie Pompei wants you to know that we're all biased, and we can work with that
Some LGBT students find themselves accepted by their peers, but not by teachers and administrators at school, said Vinnie Pompei of the Human Rights Campaign, who will speak at the EdSource Symposium in October.
Jane Meredith Adams
September 18, 2017
Dyslexia, once the reading disability that shall not be named, comes into its own in California
New California Dyslexia Guidelines are meant to improve how reading is taught to all students by all teachers, not just reading specialists.
Jane Meredith Adams
August 20, 2017
Don't slam the desk on the way out. If fewer teachers quit, the shortage would end
If schools could improve their work environments, and stop the flood of teachers leaving the field, the teaching shortage would go away, according to a report from the Learning Policy Institute.
Jane Meredith Adams
August 15, 2017
Circle up: Teaching social-emotional skills year round
All social-emotional learning, all the time as California moves to start a conversation between after-school and summer programs and their school-day counterparts.
Jane Meredith Adams
August 8, 2017
Record high vaccination rates of 7th-graders reported in first year of stricter requirements
As California's strict vaccination law turns a year old, vaccination rates have reached their highest levels.
Jane Meredith Adams
July 27, 2017
Quick Guide: Understanding social and emotional learning
Information about social and emotional learning for parents, teachers, administrators and students.
Jane Meredith Adams
July 27, 2017
Settlement in Kern discrimination lawsuit calls for new school discipline policies
The Kern High School District in the Central Valley admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to settle because changes in school discipline reflect current policies.
Jane Meredith Adams
July 24, 2017
Social and emotional learning appears to provide benefits that last
The students retained those skills when researchers tracked them months or even years later.
Jane Meredith Adams
July 17, 2017
Do girls have access to team sports? Many California schools aren't telling, despite law
Many California schools aren't reporting whether girls have equal access to high school sports teams, a new study from Legal Aid at Work finds.
Jane Meredith Adams
July 12, 2017
In California push to help students with dyslexia, LA schools take a first step
Parents described the nightmare of a child who is unable to learn to read and the need for schools to provide services to address dyslexia.
Jane Meredith Adams
June 25, 2017
As social and emotional learning expands, educators fear the 'fizzle'
Will social and emotional learning turn out to be just a fad? Researchers propose strategies to prevent that fate.
Jane Meredith Adams
June 15, 2017
ACLU finds 'over-policing' in Stockton Unified schools
Stockton Unified spent nearly $3 million on school policing from state money targeted for low-income, English learner and foster youth students, the ACLU found in a data analysis.
Jane Meredith Adams
June 6, 2017
California school data? There's an app for that
Search school information in the CA Schools app from the California Department of Education.