Topic

Student Well-Being

What sets the stage for student learning? EdSource reports on major school reform initiatives rooted in improving the physical, emotional and behavioral health of children and teens. Strategies include social and emotional skill-building, trauma-informed teaching and school-based health centers. The goal: Attendance improves, discipline referrals fall, teen pregnancy rates drop and engagement in learning increases.

California Student Journalism Corps

August 18, 2022

UC and CSU campuses prepare to offer abortion pills for students by January

California's community colleges, unlike their four-year public counterparts, are not required to offer medication abortions by Jan 1.

Margo Rosenbaum and Natalie Lu

Student Well-Being

August 16, 2022

Healthier options on the menu as California begins providing free meals for all students

California districts are using increased state and local funding to improve the free school meals offered to all students

Ali Tadayon

Student Well-Being

August 11, 2022

California colleges now have centers to help students with basic needs like food and housing

As community college students return to their campuses, many will find one new resource to count on: a hub where they can seek support in meeting their basic needs.

Betty Márquez Rosales

Quick Guides

August 11, 2022

Basic needs at the California community colleges | Quick Guide

California Community Colleges must now offer a basic needs center at all 115 of its physical campuses. Most centers will offer food and housing support to begin.

Betty Márquez Rosales

Student Well-Being

August 10, 2022

What’s new this school year? Changing Covid protocols, universal TK, later start times and more

California's school year will begin with fewer Covid protocols, universal transitional kindergarten, more afterschool programs and community schools, and later start times for older students.

Diana Lambert

Coronavirus

July 26, 2022

Elementary students are recovering faster from Covid learning loss, research shows

Research shows students in elementary school are further along on the road to learning recovery than middle school students, but both groups are several years away from a full academic recovery.

Ali Tadayon

Student Well-Being

July 25, 2022

A rare case of mental health in school gone right

Timely, supportive mental health services can rescue a student in crisis.

Natalie Lu

College Readiness

July 20, 2022

New pathway to a diploma opens doors for students with disabilities

For the first time, students with significant cognitive disabilities would be able to earn a high school diploma — a gateway to better jobs.

Carolyn Jones

Teacher Voices

July 18, 2022

We need less summer, more vacation

The ten-week summer results in long, brutal stretches during both the fall and spring without any meaningful break from school.

Heath Madom

Commentary

July 13, 2022

Why intergroup dialogue should be part of every K-12 school

Schools should be creating spaces for sustained, thoughtful intergroup dialog because school should be about learning about people, not just subjects.

Kiana Foxx and Ashton Pemberton

Teacher Survey Project

July 13, 2022

California teachers share their challenges and worries: Teaching during Covid

The nonprofit Inverness Institute interviewed veteran teachers about life in the classroom during another difficult year impacted by a pandemic; two principals involved with the study sum up the findings in an interview with EdSource's John Fensterwald.

John Fensterwald

College & Careers

July 8, 2022

CSU Long Beach makes mental health priority

Improving mental health services for college students has become a national priority. CSU Long Beach takes a broad approach with 60 initiatives that will unfold through 2025.

Ashley A. Smith

Commentary

July 6, 2022

Berkeley High foils attack but schools still need help to keep students safe

Students at Berkeley High — and every other school in the United States — are being made to feel less safe by a Supreme Court intent on expanding “gun rights.”

Louis Freedberg

Student Well-Being

July 6, 2022

When patients are students, learning is vital to healing

Hope, recovery and algebra: More children's hospitals are expanding school services

Carolyn Jones

Student voices

July 1, 2022

Graduation hot take: As temperatures rise reconsider outdoor events

Problems caused by extreme heat at this year's UC Davis graduation ceremonies underscore the importance of planning for extreme conditions.