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Students who go to a California community college right out of high school graduate with a four-year degree just 16% of the time within eight years of starting classes, according to a new analysis from the Public Policy Institute of California. The data show that students who start out...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters A medida que el mundo se adaptaba a la vida pandémica, los estudiantes que se graduaron de la escuela secundaria durante la crisis del COVID-19 comenzaron nuevos capítulos de sus vidas en aislamiento social y académico. Muchos pasaron el último año de secundaria por Zoom, sin...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters As the world settled into pandemic life, students who graduated from high school during the COVID-19 crisis started new chapters of their lives in social and academic seclusion. Many spent their senior year on Zoom, without homecomings, proms or graduations. They struggled to pass classes and...
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Denise Amos CalMatters En los cursos de automoción de Marty Supple, los estudiantes se sumergen hasta los codos en motores de automóviles, deslizándose bajo chasis entreabiertos y tecleando lo que parecen marañas de cables en los tableros. Estos adolescentes están obteniendo créditos de la escuela secundaria y la universidad,...
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Denise Amos CalMatters In Marty Supple’s automotive courses, students are elbow deep in car engines, sliding under half-open chassis and plugging away at what looks like tangles of wires in dashboards. These teens are getting high school and college credits, at the same time they’re earning above minimum wage...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters In this politically charged era, there’s one thing both parties agree on: the benefits of high school career pathways. With strong bipartisan support, career and technical education programs are poised to be a centerpiece of education policy over the next few years — both federally and...
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Lack of diversity in the medical field is a big problem. Data show fewer than 6% of active physicians in the U.S. are Black and fewer than 7% are Hispanic, so Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is working to diversify across the campus. The Next Generation Healthcare Pathways program offers a 10-week paid...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Many students start community college with the hope of getting an associate degree and then transferring to a four-year institution, such as a California State University or University of California campus. But a state audit, released September 24, found that the vast majority of these students never...
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Aunque los colegios comunitarios de California son el sistema de educación superior más grande del país, la ayuda financiera para estudiantes es la razón por la que muchos estudiantes no pueden pagar sus estudios. Esta ayuda está disponible a través de la Solicitud Gratuita de Ayuda Federal para Estudiantes...