A report released Feb. 25 by the curriculum and assessment company Amplify calls out the urgency of implementing data-driven instruction if local educational agencies want to improve literacy outcomes and close achievement gaps.
While boys and girls start kindergarten on roughly equal footing in math, boys consistently gain ground during the kindergarten year and continue pulling ahead through fifth grade, according to new research from the Brookings Institution.
A new brief from the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools highlighted evolving trends in California’s teacher pipeline and workforce from 2019–20 through 2023–24. Researchers found that during this six-year time period, the number of experienced teachers decreased while the number of first-year teachers increased, suggesting both decreased teacher retention and increased recruitment post-COVID.
A couple bucks here, a few dollars there — it all adds up to about $49 million in losses for local educational agencies, according to a report released by KEV Group, a provider of K-12 school finance management solutions.
For the three in 10 California children ages 12-17 who report symptoms that meet the criteria for serious psychological distress, the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative and the California Community Schools Partnership Program are crucial lifelines. The two programs invest a combined $8 billion in the mental health of children and teens, including school-based services.
The majority of both teens and adults support cellphone restrictions in schools, despite reporting no major positive impacts from this shift in policy, according to recent research from the Brookings Institution.
The California State Board of Education’s (SBE) March 11-12 meeting included two study sessions on topics related to the developing state Portrait of a Graduate/Learner and the role of differentiated assistance (DA) in the Statewide System of Support, as well as the adoption of a Personal Finance Curriculum Guide and changes to several indicators and other factors on the California School Dashboard.
A new case study from WestEd and the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools examines how state and local policymakers can work together to better support migrant students, those experiencing homelessness, or children involved in the foster care or juvenile justice systems — groups known as “highly mobile youth.”
More than a third of boys take up gambling before they turn 18, according to a new report from Common Sense Media that explores the concerning and explosive growth into adolescent boys’ gambling habits.
Despite local educational agency efforts to ramp up investments in school facilities, the U.S. now faces an annual $90 billion shortfall in school facility funding after years of massive, chronic underinvestment, according to a recent report from the 21st Century School Fund, International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) and the National Council on School Facilities.
