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5 ways parents can reinforce their children’s reading skills at home
Every March since 1998, the National Education Association has used its Read Across America initiative to promote literacy and encourage a love of reading among children. It’s a wonderful program that features guest readers, book scavenger hunts and character dress-up days to bring stories to life. Amid the celebration and fanfare, though, the nation must...
By Rebecca Brownell and Tiffany Jones | April 2, 2024
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If March Madness women’s tourney colleges won for boosting students’ social mobility, UC-Irvine would be champion
It’s a challenge to capture the excitement surrounding this year’s NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball tournament. In the first round, Iowa’s future WNBA star, Caitlin Clark, scored 27 points and had 10 assists to lead the Hawkeyes to victory over the Crusaders of Holy Cross. Not to be outdone, Kiki Iriafen led the Stanford Cardinals...
By Jorge Klor de Alva | April 1, 2024
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Final push to save expanded child tax credit as Senate hopes dim
The last time Congress increased the child tax credit — during the pandemic — Sarah Izabel used the extra cash to enroll her son in an afterschool program so she could apply to graduate school. “If my son was home, then I would be taking care of him,” said the Stanford University student, who’s...
By Linda Jacobson | March 28, 2024
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Slowdown in health care expenses is saving school districts billions
Thirteen years ago this month, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. In theory, the ACA shouldn’t have affected public school districts all that much. Most already offered health care plans that met the ACA’s requirements to at least cover 10 “essential benefits,” and a “Cadillac Tax” on high-cost plans that...
By Chad Aldeman | March 27, 2024
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‘Battle of the Minds’: Students compete in LAUSD’s 43rd Decathlon
The gym was silent as the next question was presented. Each team gathered at their station, and each member focused intently, while spectators in the stands quietly whispered to themselves trying to decipher the answer. This was the scene at LA Unified’s annual Academic Decathlon held last month — where students spend countless hours training...
By Kailee Bryant | March 26, 2024
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Stress leading cause why Black and Latino students leave college
A new report has found Black and Latino students continue to be more likely than their white peers to leave postsecondary education even as college enrollment has slowly increased since the pandemic. The report from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation surveyed more than 14,000 respondents in the fall of 2023 — including about 6,000 enrolled...
By Joshua Bay | March 25, 2024
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Opinion: Americans have yet to accept COVID’s tragedy — and are taking it out on schools
In my District of Columbia neighborhood, everything pretty much ground to a halt on Friday, March 13, 2020. My kid won the school’s bilingual spelling bee in a crowded auditorium buzzing with speculation that the school probably wasn’t reopening next week. Hours later, an announcement from administrators confirmed it: our pandemic had begun. By March...
By Conor Williams | March 22, 2024
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March Madness: If the tournament celebrated colleges for moving grads up the income ladder, both California State University Long Beach & San Diego State would make the Sweet 16
With all that’s going wrong around the world, and given the nation’s increasing disillusionment with higher education, it is a special treat for basketball fans to be able to turn their attention to March Madness. For us, it’s time to celebrate athletes and their schools by turning our attention to our alternative bracket to the...
By Jorge Klor de Alva | March 21, 2024
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Meet the STEM Superstars: Four inspiring teen inventors who set out to tackle cancer, anxiety, suicide & more
Thursday is officially Pi Day, offering Americans the annual opportunity to geek out over math, geometry and all things STEM. (It’s also recently become #DressForSTEM Day, celebrating women in science — more on that below) In honor of 3.14, we recently canvassed the country, searching out STEM students with noteworthy projects and inventions. You can...
By LA School Report | March 20, 2024
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New California legislation would mandate ‘science of reading’ to improve child literacy
With a majority of California third graders unable to read at grade level, proposed legislation would mandate teachers use the phonics-based science of reading. Assemblymember Blanca Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) and 13 co-authors have proposed a bill that would update the state’s English curriculum with the science of reading – research that has found the best...
By Angelina Hicks | March 19, 2024