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Disparities in education can crush aspirations in heart of Silicon Valley
Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is home to such high-tech fixtures as Yahoo!, Juniper Networks, AMD and Applied Micro, plus aerospace/defense operations of Lockheed Martin and Honeywell. Yet few Latinos who grow up in their shadow are qualified to work for those companies. The disconnect between aspirations and reality starts early. Only 10 percent of Latinos, who comprise 42 percent of students in Sunnyvale Elementary District, are proficient in algebra by the end of … Read entire article »
Filed under: A to G Curriculum, Charter Schools, Equity issues, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, STEM, UC and CSU
LA Unified off track to meet deadline for college prep courses
Los Angeles Unified School District has some work ahead of it to meet its deadline for all students to pass college-preparatory classes in order to graduate. Only about a quarter of students who graduated in the class of 2011 had completed what’s known as the A-G subjects, according to a new study by the Strategic Data Project of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. A-G courses are a sequence of math, English, science, history, language and visual or performing arts classes that are required for admission to the University of California and California State University. LA Unified’s requirement that all students pass A-G courses in order to graduate doesn’t take effect until the class of 2016, and project researcher Jon Fullerton said he expects the rates to increase as that date nears. Still, … Read entire article »
Filed under: A to G Curriculum, California Colleges, College and Career Preparation, College Enrollment, High School Completion, Quick Hits, Research, UC and CSU
Promising signs, potential lessons from Long Beach College Promise
A new way of determining students’ readiness for college courses could be the missing link that will allow the much heralded Long Beach College Promise to fulfill its promise. The College Promise, which celebrated its fifth birthday with the release of a report last week, is a model of cooperation between a K-12 district – Long Beach Unified – and the public colleges it feeds: Long Beach City College and California State University, Long Beach. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: A to G Curriculum, California Colleges, College Completion, College Enrollment, College Remediation, Community Colleges, Reporting & Analysis, UC and CSU
UC faculty reject shared online course network
The University of California’s Academic Senate is dead set against a bill by State Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg that would open access to hard-to-get required courses through a statewide network of online courses, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle cites an open letter to UC faculty from Academic Senate Chair Robert Powell and Vice Chair Bill Jacob, saying they have “grave concerns” about Senate Bill 520, which Steinberg unveiled last week. Steinberg wants to expand the authority of the Open Education Resources Panel, which consists of three faculty members from each of the state’s three public college and university systems, from its current role of selecting online textbooks, to allow the panel to approve online courses for the 50 most oversubscribed lower-division classes. … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, College Enrollment, Community Colleges, Quick Hits, UC and CSU
State Board eliminates incentives to offer Algebra in 8th grade
The State Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to remove state incentives encouraging schools to offer Algebra I in 8th grade. The move was both a vote of confidence in the new Common Core standards for 8th grade, which districts are now beginning to implement, and a retreat from a decade-old policy of pushing universal algebra in 8th grade. Proponents of the state’s current policy are predicting that enrollment in Algebra by 8th grade, which has … Read entire article »
Filed under: A to G Curriculum, Common Core standards, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, Science, Math (STEM), UC and CSU
Questions surround bill proposing online course network at colleges
California could lead the charge in developing a network of online public college courses open to all students enrolled in the University of California, California State University and the California Community College system. Senate Bill 520, introduced by Senate president pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), would allow the thousands of students shut out of required classes due to budget cuts to enroll in an online version of the course in order to stay on track to … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, College Completion, College Enrollment, Community Colleges, Featured, Jerry Brown, Legislature, Bills, Reporting & Analysis, UC and CSU
Pursuit of college financial aid varies widely among high schools
California high school seniors are losing out on potentially hundreds of millions of dollars each year in financial aid – and forgoing the opportunity to attend college they assume they cannot afford – because only half of them fill out the forms for financial aid, according to a new report from Education Trust-West. But some high schools and some districts do a far better job in encouraging and assisting students and parents to provide the information, according … Read entire article »
Filed under: College Enrollment, College Loans, Grants, Community Colleges, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, UC and CSU
Community colleges to release scorecard rivaling the president’s
Students planning to attend one of the nation’s 4,500 colleges and universities have a new interactive College Scorecard touted by President Obama in his State of the Union address as a tool “to compare schools based on a simple criteria – where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.” Community college leaders say the focus on costs and graduation rates is a flawed lens for measuring their worth. Give it a few weeks, … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, Career Technical Education, College and Career Preparation, College Completion, College Loans, Grants, College Remediation, Community Colleges, Data, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, UC and CSU
University-Udacity partnership brings innovative online courses to students
In announcing San Jose State University’s contract with the online course developer Udacity to offer three innovative math classes, Gov. Jerry Brown bristled at a press conference Tuesday when the first question from the media was, “How much would they cost?” After comparing technology to poetry and quoting from Robert Frost in his remarks, the governor was disappointed that the reporter had left the intellectual sphere so quickly to delve into the mundane. However, cost is a … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, College Completion, College Remediation, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, UC and CSU
State creating “time bomb” with cuts to higher ed
Give a dollar to California’s public colleges and universities and receive $4.50 back. Those are pretty good odds, and they’re not from one of those overseas scam emails humbly requesting your help in transferring funds. This more-than-400-percent yield is the net return on the state’s investment in higher education, according to California’s Economic Payoff, one of two reports released yesterday that make the case for a stronger state investment in higher education. Multiply that by the hundreds … Read entire article »
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Video Highlights from
2013 EdSource Symposium
Transforming Public Education: What's Next For
Students, Teachers and Schools
- In Partnership with the California State PTA -
May 4th symposium in San Jose featured a number of prominent speakers on key challenges in education today, including Linda Darling-Hammond, Martha Kanter, and Pedro Noguera.
You can find video of those speakers and more at our new YouTube channel by clicking below.
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