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Carolyn Jones CalMatters No se trata exactamente del “milagro de Mississippi”, pero los resultados de lectura en California han ido mejorando gradualmente desde que el estado invirtió miles de millones en transformar la forma en que los estudiantes aprenden a leer. Sin embargo, la escasez de tutores de alfabetización...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters It’s not quite the “Mississippi Miracle,” but California’s reading scores have been inching upwards since the state poured billions into changing the way students learn to read. A shortage of literacy coaches, however, may be preventing students from improving even more. In 2013, before California overhauled its...
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California ranks 37th out of 48 states for spending on K-12 education – according to a new report from Rutgers University, the University of Miami, and the nonprofit Albert Shanker Institute. The annual School Finance Indicators Database found that California is spending more than 14% less than it did before the...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters For most K-12 student groups in California, test scores have been maddeningly flat since the pandemic. But for Black students, stagnant scores have been particularly frustrating: Black students’ math and English language arts scores inched downward for most grade levels last year, notching some of the...
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Nathaniel Sillin Practical Money Matters You should want to know your credit score. After all, your credit can be incredibly important to your financial future. It could impact your likelihood of getting approved for a loan and the interest rate you’ll get on new financial products. However, understanding the...