Just ahead of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, Pew Research Center published its new report, Teens, Social Media and Mental Health, which found that an increasing number of teens find social media harmful.
While the number of youths in residential placement has been on a steady decline in the U.S. since 2003, an uptick was observed in 2023.
Through a nationally representative survey of 1,286 individuals aged 18-29 that took place following the presidential election in November, the report How Does Gen Z Really Feel About Democracy? Insights from Three Profiles of Youth and Democracy found that most young people (about 63 percent) have a “passive appreciation” of democracy.
Resource guides published in March by AAPI Data, a research and policy organization based at the University of California, Berkeley’s Asian American Research Center, offer a glimpse of K-12 and higher education trends among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities.
Nearly half (48 percent) of the 1,591 adults who took part in the Public Policy Institute of California’s (PPIC) latest survey on education feel their local public schools do not receive sufficient state funding.
Representatives from CSBA partner law firms offered members insights on how to prepare for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) on campuses and protect students and staff from its potential pitfalls during the April 30 webinar, “Legal Considerations: Using AI tools in educational settings.”
Twenty-eight percent of the 3.1 million California students who graduated from a public high school between 2015 and 2021 had CalFresh benefits during at least a portion of their time in grades 9-12, according to a report published by the California Policy Lab (CPL) in April.
“In order to fulfill our obligations to students and community, we must pursue continuous improvement, constantly increasing our knowledge base and honing our skills,” CSBA President Dr. Bettye Lusk said during the 2025 CSBA County Board Governance Workshop.
Thousands of fourth graders in Santa Cruz County have received free, all-access annual passes to more than 2,000 sites including national parks and other federally managed land thanks to a partnership between the Santa Cruz County Office of Education and the Bureau of Land Management California Central Coast Field Office.
As students around the country are deprived of adequate math instruction and almost a quarter of fourth graders don’t have basic math knowledge and skills, a new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) examines how improved teacher preparation programs can help address the issue.
