Results of the 2023–24 Women Leading Ed Insight Survey released in March show that many women are still dealing with the same professional challenges they’ve experienced for decades.
Almost 63 percent of California high school seniors felt prepared to begin college and two-thirds were satisfied with the advising they received regarding higher education, Policy Analysis for California Education’s (PACE) brief “The Transition to College: Voices From the Class of 2023,” released in March.
An April 12 webinar hosted by CSBA explained how school board members can take steps to create a personal social media page where they are not speaking on behalf of their local educational agency, using the standards established by the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier.
State and federal education officials have released resources to support High School Voter Education Weeks, happening April 15-26. Creating a sense of civic awareness within future voters and inspiring eligible 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister to vote so they are automatically able to participate in […]
The new brief “Seize the Data: Using Chronic Absence Data to Drive Student Engagement,” a joint publication of CSBA and Attendance Works released in March, provides an overview of chronic absenteeism in California and information on the student groups it impacts most as well as questions that board members can consider when assessing the issue, ways to address it and related resources.
Teamwork, communication and problem-solving are just some of the skills students can acquire when electronic sports, most commonly referred to as esports, are incorporated into curriculum, according to ASUS Education’s white paper The Impact of Esports on Student Achievement.
April is National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month — a time to recognize efforts local educational agencies are making to uplift the cultural and linguistic assets of K-12 students. The ability to speak more than one language is increasingly being celebrated and encouraged in education. California’s English Learner (EL) Roadmap Policy, State Seal of Biliteracy program and the launch of the federal Being Bilingual is a Superpower initiative are some recent examples of steps being taken to support high-quality language programs.
Data from the RAND American Mathematics Educator Study on three factors that may impact K-8 students’ math education, are covered in the report Elementary and Middle School Opportunity Structures That Factor into Students’ Math Learning: Findings from the American Mathematics Educator Study, released by the […]
Internet Safety Labs’ (ISL) 2022 K-12 EdTech Benchmark Findings Report analyzes app and website safety and school technology practices in American K-12 schools through the lenses of grade level, school location, school income level, school size and racial makeup. Released in February, the nonprofit technology […]
Ahead of Arts Education Month in March, the California Department of Education hosted a webinar on how local educational agencies can put Proposition 28 funds into practice. Referred to as the Arts and Music in Schools (AMS) Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act, the legislation was […]
