Education

Teachers’ Retirement Investments Record Negative Return For First Time Since Great Recession

Inflation, market volatility, and the war in Ukraine are all factors.

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California Has Taken A Slow Approach To Dyslexia. A Lot Of Families Have Lost Patience

The nation's most common learning disorder is thought to affect somewhere between 5% and 20% of the population.

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LAUSD Will Scale Back COVID-19 Testing, ‘Daily Pass’ Health Checks When New School Year Starts

The policy shift drastically scales back the testing effort that, at its outset, accounted for the lion’s share of all COVID-19 tests conducted in L.A. County.

A student places a nasal swab from a COVID-19 test into a tube at an L.A. Unified School District screening site at San Fernando Middle School in March 2021.

Julian Nava, LA School Board's First Mexican American Member, Dead At 95

The first Mexican American member of the Los Angeles Unified board, Nava had many critics involved in the 1960s Chicano Movement.

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How A Journalism Class In Compton Boosts Students’ English Skills

Students learn listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, by interviewing and writing articles, in this six-week summer class.

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Deep Divisions, Further Delay For California’s Math Guidelines

Detractors and supporters disagree on whether teaching standards through “big ideas” and creating new high school pathways will achieve more equitable outcomes for all students.

Three students in a public school classroom sit facing away from the camera, their eyes pointed to their teacher, wearing a floral-print button down shirt at the front of the classroom. The teacher points at a projection on her classroom's white board of a black-and-white archival photo, depicting a man in a tuxedo and two women in dresses.

A Growing Number Of Americans Are Questioning The Value Of Going To College

In line with previous years, the survey finds that Democrats and Republicans disagree about multiple aspects of higher education. While 73% of Democrats believe colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country, only 37% of Republicans feel that way.