Strong family engagement has been shown to improve student outcomes, school climate and more, but schools and parents alike often find that meaningful engagement can be extremely challenging to put into practice. On Jan. 15, the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments held a […]
The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results, released on Jan. 28, covering mathematics and reading scores for students in grades 4 and 8 show that while California has made some progress in catching up to the national average, more work remains.
The Riverside County Office of Education recently launched an initiative focused on partnerships and collaboration to address the myriad challenges that foster students throughout the county face both in and outside of the classroom. Data show foster youth throughout the nation continue to face lower […]
Spotlighting promising programs for Black History Month Emery Unified School District — a two-school district located in the Bay Area — has seen significant improvement among its African American students in recent years, with test scores on the rise and chronic absence rates declining. As […]
A new case study from Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) examines how a pilot program in Lake Tahoe Unified School District (LTUSD) successfully leveraged leadership, strategic resource use and collaborative structures to improve elementary math instruction and scale practices. As a part of the […]
Dual enrollment college courses are now offered at 90 percent of public high schools across the country, with nearly 2.5 million high school students taking advantage of the opportunity to get a jumpstart on their higher education. While these students tend to have higher rates […]
Over a three-year period beginning in 2020, Grass Valley School District, located in Nevada County, was able to implement strategies that improved literacy instruction and outcomes for students.
As local educational agencies continue to reexamine and reimagine education models to support student achievement, many are exploring learner-centered strategies. Education Reimagined, a national nonprofit, released a report in November examining the experiences of young people already learning in these environments through surveys, questionnaires and […]
WestEd’s new report, Native Students and High School Success: Lessons on Achieving Graduation From Five Bureau of Indian Education Schools, outlines eight promising practices that have emerged from BIE schools in Washington, Iowa, New Mexico, Oklahoma and North Dakota.
The California State Board of Education (SBE) is currently accepting feedback on significant updates to the Student Score Report (SSR) that may impact how a student and their parents interpret the student’s results on state standardized tests.
