Research
A new report by the UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools evaluates the success of scaling up California’s Multi-Tiered System of Support (CA MTSS) initiative. Scaling Equity: Unfulfilled Promises and Lessons From California’s MTSS Initiative evaluates the Phase 2 expansion, which was centered on […]
Sixty-two percent of the 1,060 U.S. teens ages 13-17 who participated in a recent survey said that graduating college is extremely or very important to them, however, being able to pursue what they enjoy (82 percent), having a good standard of living (81 percent), a successful career (80 percent) and owning a home (72 percent) were top priorities.
While school boards grapple with increased rates of hostility toward their members, they are concerned with the negativity’s potential spillover effects on students, according to the report Mitigating Threats Against School Board Officials: Mixed Methods Research to Understand and Respond to Rising Hostility — released in July by the Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI), a nonpartisan research initiative at Princeton University.
While most adults don’t view preparing students to be engaged citizens as the top goal for K-12 education, new survey results from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) show that for majorities of Californians and public school parents, civic education is still considered a […]
In a follow-up report to two recently released fact sheets detailing college access and readiness throughout the state, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) homed in on pathways to college completion in the Inland Empire. While the region has a higher share of children […]
CSBA’s Research and Education Policy Development (REPD) team released on June 17 a new brief focusing on LGBTQ students as part of its Students in Focus series, which features briefs and fact sheets related to the educational needs of various student groups. Of the 3.2 […]
Research shows that teachers who obtain their credentials from preparation programs that provide extensive student teaching are more effective and stay in the profession longer than teachers prepared on faster tracks. A new report from Educator Registered Apprenticeship (ERA) Intermediary, with the support of WestEd, […]
Forty-four percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals age 13-17 reported being food insecure in the past month and 51 percent reported experiencing houselessness at some point in their life, according to findings from The Trevor Project’s April research brief “The Impact of Houselessness and Food Insecurity on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People.”
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.
