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Carolyn Jones CalMatters Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet. Gov. Gavin Newsom last month signed Assembly Bill 873, which requires...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters A medida que comienza un nuevo año escolar en California, los distritos están tratando desesperadamente de atraer a miles de estudiantes desaparecidos, que llegan tarde y faltan a clase para que regresen a las aulas en lo que muchos ven como un momento crucial para la...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters As a new school year gets underway in California, districts are desperately trying to lure thousands of missing, tardy and truant students back to the classroom in what many view as a pivotal moment for education in California. In 2021-22, 30% of students in California’s public...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Grizzled farmworkers are the hot new commodity as community colleges try to reverse a years-long enrollment decline. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the “golden age” of higher education — where more and more adults were attending college every year — came to a halt, and California’s...
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Joe Hong & Erica Yee A la mitad de un día escolar en febrero, el salón de clases de sexto grado de Theresa Griffin en Stege Elementary está más caótico que de costumbre. En la pizarra blanca, Griffin escribe los nombres de los estudiantes habladores que se quedarán después...
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Joe Hong & Erica Yee CalMatters Halfway through a chilly school day in February, Theresa Griffin’s sixth grade classroom at Stege Elementary is more chaotic than usual. On the white board, Griffin writes the names of talkative students who will be staying behind after the lunch bell rings. A...
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Megan Tagami CalMatters En una lluviosa tarde de viernes en la Santa Mónica High School, la maestra de estudios étnicos Marisa Silvestri presentó a su clase la canción de rap “Kenji”. Mientras el cantante Mike Shinoda narraba las experiencias de su familia en los campos de encarcelamiento estadounidenses de...
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Megan Tagami CalMatters On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” As singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences in the Japanese American incarceration camps of World War II, Silvestri’s class fell silent. After...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services La controversia ronda el currículum de las escuelas K-12 en Florida donde, bajo la presión del Gob. Ron DeSantis, el Consejo del Colegio lanzó una nueva y simplificada versión del curso de estudios Áfrico Americanos AP. El movimiento surge cuando los legisladores estatales consideran...