Education Beat
Kids or cops: who should use this library building?
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.
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?
Despite efforts to limit remedial classes in California, many colleges are still offering them. What would it take to eliminate these courses?
Students from low-income families are more likely to have uncredentialed teachers than students from wealthier households.
On the one-year anniversary of Education Beat, we take a moment to look back at the year’s episodes.
High schoolers in Oakland and Berkeley helped get measures passed to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in school board elections. Now they wonder why the measures still haven’t been implemented.
A teacher at one child development center shares how she uses math concepts all day, even during a diaper change.