Education Beat
How Fresno Unified is getting missing students back in class
April 11, 2024
Some school districts, like Fresno Unified, have managed to bring many of their missing students back to class. What’s their secret?
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How can we get more Black teachers in the classroom?
April 4, 2024
What’s keeping Black teachers from getting to and staying in the classroom?
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California college savings accounts aren’t getting to all the kids who need them
March 28, 2024
If you or your child were enrolled in first grade through high school, in 2021-22, you might have money for college waiting for you.
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How improv theater class can help kids heal from trauma
March 21, 2024
An actor and teaching artist shares how he’s seen improv theater class help children heal from trauma.
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50 years later: How Lau v. Nichols changed education for English learners
March 14, 2024
Lucinda Lee Katz, the lead plaintiff’s first grade teacher, tells how this Supreme Court case began in San Francisco and how it changed education.
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What do students think of online classes?
March 7, 2024
Online classes offer more flexibility and can enroll more students. But what do students think of them?
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Jobs Corps helps formerly incarcerated people land on their feet
February 29, 2024
A California program places people in jobs and helps them prepare for careers that they might not otherwise be able to access.
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Should California mandate that all schools adopt the science of reading?
February 22, 2024
As a child, Blanca Rubio was given coloring sheets instead of books because she didn’t speak English. Now she’s spearheading an effort to require science of reading in schools.
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Most high schoolers lack classes needed for college. What one school district is doing about it
February 15, 2024
Black and Latino students are the least likely to finish courses required for admission to California universities.
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Parents sued California. Now money for learning loss will go to students who need it most
February 8, 2024
Listen to Maria O., one of the parents who sued the state of California over unequal educational opportunities provided during the pandemic.
