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With pressures on teachers at a boiling point, California needs new pathways into the profession
The pandemic exacerbated teacher shortages that must be addressed, and it also shined a light on the need to find new ways to engage and empower our young people. With thoughtful implementation to reach the communities and students who need it most, Golden State Pathways promises to help us do both, writes Teach Plus California's Sarah Lillis and Linked Learning Alliance's Anne Stanton.
Later School Start Times Can Make a Difference in the Mental Health of Teens
In July, California will become the first state in the nation to implement later school start times for middle and high school teens. One mother who advocated for the change has written a book explaining why this is so important for the mental health of our youth.
Why We Still Haven’t Solved the Unpaid Internship Problem
Unpaid internships benefit schools and employers, but aren’t fair to college students footing their own tuition bills, writes Ron Lieber.
Students this year need summer school. Some districts can’t staff it.
As school systems open for summer sessions, some are seeing the fallout of a punishing pandemic school year. Many would argue that the 2021-2022 school year was among the toughest they’ve experienced — with extreme staffing shortages, clashes over masking and quarantines, political tumult nationally, widespread exhaustion, students who needed extra support, and, as one school leader put it, “uncertainty around every corner.”
What Happens When Districts, States, and Universities Collaborate on Principal-Prep?
What happens when the major players in university principal preparation—states, districts, and universities—get together to work on improving those programs? Notable change can be the result, though some of it may be incremental, according to a new analysis by the RAND Corporation of a five-year initiative to reform university-based principal-prep programs in seven states.
No HS Degree? No Problem. A State’s Plan to Nudge Adults Into Community College
Maine education officials are encouraging residents who never graduated from high school to return to adult education and complete the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET).
How an East Bay school turns into a community school under California's model
Community schools typically provide health screenings, family support, counseling and other services to families while acting as community hubs. Read how Helms Middle School in the East Bay is supporting its students and families as a community school.
California’s health care workers are burning out. These universities want to help.
Samuel Merritt University and Touro University California’s new anti-burnout programs are part of a federally funded effort to improve retention in a health care industry rocked by the pandemic.
Creating a curriculum with Black girls in mind
Cierra Kaler-Jones started a program called Black Girls S.O.A.R. to bring her ideas about empowering Black girls to more students and educators. Co-designed with a handful of Black girls from Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, the program focuses on research- and arts-based projects structured around Black history and feminist thought, Afro-futurism and the history of organization and activism.