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Study: 40% of 2013 HS grads who started on a degree or credential didn’t finish
A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics found that about 40% of high school graduates who enrolled in college or a certification program in 2013 hadn’t received a degree or credential eight years later. The study followed 23,000 students starting with their freshman year of high school in 2009. Though 74% enrolled...
By Sierra Lyons | May 10, 2024
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Who you know: Social capital is key for first-gen students’ career success
A growing New York nonprofit is using a newly released report to cement data around the axiom that social capital — or who you know — is key for first-generation college graduates searching for their first job. The report by Basta, an organization that connects first-generation college graduates with careers, tracks the experiences of young...
By Lauren Wagner | May 9, 2024
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LA’s charter school wars are headed to court. Here’s what’s at stake
The California Charter Schools Association last month filed a lawsuit against LA Unified over its controversial new policy barring charters from using classrooms in certain district school buildings. It’s unclear if the CCSA will prevail in court, but the suit is already making an impact on the nation’s second-largest district. LAUSD’s new colocation rules were...
By Ben Chapman | May 8, 2024
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5 questions schools and universities should ask before they purchase AI tech products
Every few years, an emerging technology shows up at the doorstep of schools and universities promising to transform education. The most recent? Technologies and apps that include or are powered by generative artificial intelligence, also known as GenAI. These technologies are sold on the potential they hold for education. For example, Khan Academy’s founder opened...
By George Veletsianos, The Conversation | May 1, 2024
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LAUSD schools roll out science of reading and training, state lawmakers reject mandate
Los Angeles Unified is pushing ahead with district-wide lesson plans based on the science of reading even after state lawmakers rejected legislation requiring the curriculum. About half of the 434 elementary schools in the nation’s second-largest school system have already adopted lessons aligned to the phonics-based science of reading, according to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. The...
By Ben Chapman | April 30, 2024
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Post childbirth without paid leave, teachers leave their own children to teach others’
When elementary school teacher Kimberly Papa gave birth to her daughter, Margot, a little over a year ago, she wasn’t expecting much in the way of paid maternity leave. She knew that the majority of Americans don’t have access to it and certainly not those in her state of Ohio. While she could take 12...
By Amanda Geduld | April 29, 2024
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Study: Lengthy school closures were especially hard on high-achieving students
To gauge the magnitude of global learning loss during the pandemic, a team at the World Bank examined data from the Program for International Student Assessment, which tests 15-year-olds in math, reading and science, from 2018-22. Among the report’s many notable insights is a counterintuitive finding about outcomes: In countries with the longest closures, high-achieving...
By Brandon L. Wright | April 26, 2024
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189 innovative school leaders: Teacher staffing, AI, mental health top ed issues
A common set of problems are keeping education leaders up at night: Will there be enough teachers to staff America’s schools? Can artificial intelligence enhance learning without deepening inequality? How can educators address the mental health crisis among young people? None of these have easy answers. New data confirm that these issues are top of...
By Chelsea Waite | April 25, 2024
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Financial aid reform was his legacy. Now, Lamar Alexander calls it ‘a big mess’
The turbulent rollout of a new federal financial aid application could mean thousands of low-income students miss out on college this fall. But one person feels especially perturbed by the botched implementation of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. Lamar Alexander — former governor of Tennessee, U.S. education secretary and Republican...
By Linda Jacobson | April 24, 2024
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California launches new mental health-based apps for families and youth
Blanca Paniagua was nervous. The young adult was set to speak at a webinar about one of CalHope’s new experimental apps. “I saw how many participants there (were) and I was like, I’m about to use the app so it could calm me down,” said Paniagua. But Paniagua had some strategies from the app —...
By Erick Trevino | April 23, 2024