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While controversy rages on about the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course, Black students in a new survey say they want a more inclusive curriculum. In the survey by YouthTruth, Black students said they feel learning about Black American or African history can be a guiding factor...
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Zaeem Shaikh CalMatters It took Xander nearly a decade to try community college again. The incoming American River College student first attempted higher education in North Carolina in 2013. But navigating campus as a man who is transgender was a nightmare, said Xander, who’s now 30 and asked to...
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Joe Hong CalMatters Los estudiantes de quinto grado de Roxanne Grago en la escuela primaria Lake Marie deben poder leer una historia corta, analizarla y respaldar sus análisis con ejemplos del texto. Pero Grago dijo que durante el cierre de escuelas y otras interrupciones de la era de la...
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Joe Hong CalMatters Roxanne Grago’s fifth-grade students at Lake Marie Elementary should be able to read a short story, analyze it, and support their analyses with examples from the text. But Grago said that during school closures and other pandemic-era disruptions, students fell behind academically. Today, they struggle to...
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Durante la pandemia, los colegios comunitarios de California perdieron el 19 % de su inscripción. Pero, como muestra un nuevo informe, un punado de escuelas fue lo opuesto a esta tendencia. Los investigadores de Campaign for College Opportunity descubrieron que algunas escuelas tuvieron perdidas menores o incluso agregaron estudiantes al...
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During the pandemic, California community colleges lost 19% of their enrollment, but as a new report found, a handful of schools bucked the trend. Researchers with the Campaign for College Opportunity found some schools had smaller losses or even added students by focusing on equity and expanding outreach. Colleen Moore, higher-education...
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Esta historia apareció originalmente en el Informe de Salud de California. ¿Cuándo se considera a un estudiante sin hogar? La definición de personas sin hogar entre los estudiantes de K-12 se establece en la Ley de Asistencia para Personas sin Hogar McKinney-Vento, una ley federal que detalla la ayuda...
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This story originally appeared in the California Health Report. When is a student considered homeless? The definition of homelessness among K-12 students is laid out in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a federal law that details the help public schools must give unstably housed children. That includes students living in...
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Days spent in the classroom are often centered around language, reading, math, science and other traditional curriculum, but there’s another key subject students may learn about without even realizing it: themselves. While coming to understand one’s family background and culture may seem like a daunting task for school-aged children,...