Education Beat
A home that smooths the college path for former prisoners
Host Zaidee Stavely talks with a student whose college path was transformed by a house for formerly incarcerated students and with a reporter about how this program came about.

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Host Zaidee Stavely talks with a student whose college path was transformed by a house for formerly incarcerated students and with a reporter about how this program came about.
We hear from teachers about workshops that helped them and about what their own childhood experiences as English learners taught them.
A student shares how taking college courses while still in high school helped her get ahead in college and save on tuition. But access to these courses remains uneven across California.
This week we hear from an attendance counselor who tracks down missing students and tries to get them back to class.
Conservative candidates aim to fight against teaching about racism and racial equity and the acceptance of different gender identities.
Kids say the library is a safe place to do homework, read and have fun. City leaders say the building would be better for a police station.
Kenya Abner struggled to find student housing for her family. Twenty years later, her daughter ran into the same problem.
When Elyse K’s daughter was 8, she told her mom that at school “they’d put her up on the wall, like a coat on a coat rack.”
This week, we visit a county library trying to boost literacy and a love for books among teenagers who are incarcerated in the juvenile hall.
Why do so many children struggle to read? And why are we still debating over how they should be taught?