Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. At a critical time when the U.S. education sector is facing high teacher attrition rates fueled by the pandemic and a stream of legislative restrictions around classroom content and teaching methods, the new and much-loved Abbott Elementary tells a more nuanced story of how a group of passionate, tenacious...

Students in majority-Black schools are now a full 12 months behind those in mostly white schools, widening the achievement gap by a third, according to a new analysis by McKinsey & Co. Overall, students are four months behind in math and three in reading compared with years past, but those totals hide wide disparities. At the same...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.  The stark decline in college readiness among LAUSD Black and Latino students brought educators and advocates together last week to discuss what to do about it. The report...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. A new study suggests that charter schools heavily prioritized student engagement and instruction in the early days of the pandemic, with many navigating a quick transition to online learning and beginning to embrace a hybrid model by the beginning of the 2020-21 school year. This facile response,...

700 days. That’s about how long it’s been since more than half the nation’s schools crossed into the pandemic era. On March 16, 2020, Los Angles Unified and other districts across 27 states, encompassing almost 80,000 schools, closed their doors for the first long educational lockdown. Within nine days, the nation’s remaining districts followed suit. Since...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. This article is part of a collaboration between The 74 and the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.    The Los Angeles Unified Board of Education unanimously approved a resolution last week to study the district’s hiring and retention of Black educators aimed at improving staff...

The Los Angeles Unified School District is not only the nation’s second largest school system. It is also one of the most unique with a student body that is 73 percent Latino. The district is in the news a lot, having just hired a high-profile Superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, who stepped into his new office on...

Sign up here for LA School Report’s newsletter. The percentage of Black and Latino students in Los Angeles schools completing courses that make them eligible to attend California’s state universities plunged in 2020, according to a report released Friday. Before the pandemic, almost two-thirds of Latino and more than half of Black graduates from the Los Angeles...

Significant bias has contributed to lower classroom observation scores for thousands of teachers in Tennessee over the last decade, a study published in late December found. Even when controlling for differences in professional qualification and student testing performance, male and African American teachers were rated lower than their female and white colleagues. The paper is one...

Child care centers in which children wear masks are less likely than others to shut down because of COVID-19 outbreaks, according to what’s believed to be the first large-scale, year-long study of child masking in the U.S. Conducted by researchers at Yale University, the study — involving more than 6,600 center- and home-based child care...