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Why do states give employees at public colleges and universities better retirement plans than they give their employees in K-12 schools? The root of this disconnect started a century ago, when Andrew Carnegie created the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America to provide guaranteed retirement income and life insurance, mainly to college professors who...

This is an excerpt from Charles Cole III’s self-published dissertation Beyond Grit & Resilience: How Black Men Impacted by the Crack Epidemic Succeeded Against the Odds and Obtained Doctoral Degrees. It’s been lightly edited. Research on Black males over the past decade has created a pervasive set of ideas that Black men are a difficult...

Pull up to bonita @7 vs Glendora #johnstrong pic.twitter.com/VKn3gSDXnW — Aalias Williams (@kingadub1) October 3, 2019 When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the football team he coaches visited the hospital. So, when he was released a week later, John Langilotti returned the favor. Langilotti, the assistant football coach for Bonita High School in California,...

This interview is one in a series spotlighting Los Angeles teachers, their unique and innovative classroom approaches, and their thoughts on how the education system can better support teachers in guiding students to success. Carol Park doesn’t take lightly the responsibility of teaching what she calls the “underseen” middle school student. With most of the...

Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears weekly at LA School Report By all accounts, it’s a great time to be a California union activist. Statewide political offices are in Democratic hands. The legislature is solidly liberal. The state GOP shows no signs of life. Government revenues are up. Government spending is up. Where is there a...

California’s 115 community colleges are in the midst of a major transformation of how students are taught college-level math and English courses. A state law instituted a fall 2019 deadline for community colleges to largely end the practice of forcing students into remedial classes, which repeat coursework that students have already learned in high school....

There’s no shortage of ideas about how nontraditional practices are taking off in K-12 schools, but often scant data to back them up — let alone data that can surface patterns and blind spots where we may not be paying attention. The Canopy project, a collaborative initiative led by the Christensen Institute that reimagines where...

Last week, Democrats made history as 12 candidates crowded the debate stage, the most ever to participate in a single debate. With so many candidates and topics to cover, it’s hard to have a substantive conversation on any of the issues — especially education, which received only a scant mention last Tuesday (and was raised...

For parents of children with disabilities, finding a school where the adults not only care about what your child needs but are capable of providing it can be life-changing. Over the last 12 months, researchers at the Center on Reinventing Public Education and the National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools fanned out across...

This interview is one in a series spotlighting Los Angeles teachers, their unique and innovative classroom approaches, and their thoughts on how the education system can better support teachers in guiding students to success. After more than 20 years working in the insurance industry, Polly Buller-Ulm thought it wasn’t too late to pursue what she...