The Morning Read
Your Daily Roundup of LAUSD news from across the web | 10.05.21
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Survey: Many Gen Zers say school lacks ‘sense of purpose’ and isn’t ‘motivating’
Pursuing her passion for a career in medicine, California high schooler Ella Mayor found fulfillment working as a part-time pharmacy technician — tapping into skills she could never practice in school. Mayor, a 12th grade student at Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley, said she is often just going through the motions in her...
By Joshua Bay | May 2, 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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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
Schools After COVID: 6 Ways For Districts to Better Engage Parents Amid Concerns About COVID Learning Loss
74 Interview: Why Social Media is Being Blamed for the Youth Suicide Crisis
Thousands of Schools at Risk of Closing Due to Enrollment Loss
Free New AI Tool to Help Americans Search and Compare Student Test Scores Across All 50 States
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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
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This Earth Day, make sure every child learns key lessons about the environment
EarthDay.org started the battle for climate education April 22, 1970 — the very first Earth Day — and continues to fight for it 54 years later. Right now, the organization is working in every state in the country to provide free climate literacy resources for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Every child must be...
By Lilly Howard | April 22, 2024
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WATCH: Legos & Rubik’s Cube inspired California teen’s homelessness solution
There are more than 180,000 unhoused people in California, and only half of them can be accommodated by the existing shelter system. That’s why Renee Wang, a rising senior at The Bishop’s School in San Diego, California, wanted to find a better solution. Her project, Rubix, inspired by the Rubik’s Cube and Lego, is a...
By Jim Fields | April 19, 2024
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Denying education to immigrant children is morally wrong — and practically dumb
These are tough times for parents and caregivers. To raise a child in 2024 is to live with a heightened awareness of school’s social, emotional, and academic value to children’s short- and long-term well-being. As the United States continues to wrestle with the aftermath of pandemic-wrecked school years, as we struggle to respond with something resembling a coherent agenda for improving public education, the...
By Conor Williams and Alejandra Vázquez Baur | April 18, 2024
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Exclusive: Microschools fill niche for students with disabilities, survey shows
When Steve and Jenny Balbaugh’s daughter turned 5, they were hesitant to enroll her in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, schools. Ali was born with a rare brain defect that affects her learning and had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. “I didn’t want her to get lost,” Jenny said. But private options fell short. A...
By Linda Jacobson | April 17, 2024
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LAUSD opens housing complex to combat rising student homelessness
As homeless student numbers rise in LA Unified schools, a 26-unit housing complex for unhoused families was opened last month. It took five years for the project to be completed — a timeline that did not go unmentioned by representatives of the organizations involved. “Once we know better, we need to do better,” said LAUSD...
By Katie VanArnam | April 16, 2024