Amid a sharp decline in college enrollment during the pandemic, graduates of low-income, high-poverty high schools were disproportionately affected, with their enrollment dropping most steeply, new data reveals.

Recently two EDCOE team members – Tamara Clay, Executive Director of Special Services and Amy Andersen, Executive Director of Personnel Services – contributed to an article by the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). In the context of the pandemic...

The transition to distance learning and learning loss has impacted all students. But, the experience of Black and Latino students has been dramatically different and in many cases, much worse. Many factors lead to learning loss. Some of the critical...

This brief highlights the need and ways to transform—systematically—how schools address the overlapping learning, behavioral, and emotional problems that can interfere with learning and teaching. The aim is to provide a blueprint to enable the state, Local Education Agencies (LEAs)...

COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruptions to schooling worldwide. Given the scale of these disruptions, there is substantial concern about “learning loss.” Learning loss, in this case, refers to the difference between the abilities that a student would have developed in...

They influence policymakers, train those caring for the underserved, have helped the University of California at Davis respond to the coronavirus pandemic, mentor students and more—they are the 16 scholars honored by the UC Davis Academic Senate and Academic Federation...

As we pass the one-year mark of schools and districts’ shift to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are reminded of the importance for education to be continuously evolving to meet the growing needs of students and...

Long Beach schools, along with most other schools across the state and country, shut down their campuses last March to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. At the time, officials estimated the closures would last about a month. It’s...

Female education staffers are newly the majority in the California legislature—now they set the culture and they say their gender matters

During the 2020-2021 school year, some students managed to stay on track academically throughout remote and hybrid learning, while many others experienced the COVID slide we had feared. Unfortunately, this variation in student knowledge is nothing new. COVID-19 has just exacerbated it. When your students’ learning gaps vary so widely, with so much learning loss to address, the stakes are high to properly diagnose each student’s needs. The question isn’t whether to assess, but how.

In 2013, policymakers replaced California’s convoluted education funding system with the Local Control Funding Formula, which streamlined dollars into a simplified formula. The revamped formula provides a base amount of funding for each student, plus supplemental dollars for students classified...

This week on State of the Bay, we'll talk about the state of school reopening with SF Chronicle education reporter Jill Tucker.  Then we'll do a deep dive into pandemic learning loss and how it can be addressed with Heather...

The California Community Colleges Board of Governors on Tuesday honored two professors and one academic counseling member with the prestigious 2020-21 Gerald C. Hayward Award for Excellence in Education.

Reading skills among young students stalled during the pandemic, according to a new study. The research provides new evidence about the pandemic’s impact on learning among students in the earliest grades. It shows distinct changes in the growth of basic...

The pandemic has introduced a great deal of hardship into many students’ lives, which may make it difficult for them to learn. Disruptions to students’ mental and emotional health, social systems of support, and learning environments require a new focus...

Tony Thurmond, California’s state superintendent of public instruction, didn’t expect the school closures across the state last year to last more than a few weeks. County school superintendents that he spoke with about the pandemic response weren’t too concerned either...

School boards are appointing superintendents who have grown up in the communities their districts serve, or spent time there as teachers or administrators, in part as a way to curb the chronic turnover in the top position.

As momentum builds to reopen schools, education experts say they're concerned about students who have fallen behind during the pandemic. They are worried that achievement gaps are widening—especially for English language learners.

As states prioritize equity in education—an equal opportunity for all students to succeed—school funding looms large as a factor that can accelerate or hinder progress.

Policy Analysis for California Education released a new study that examined 250,000 oral reading fluency scores for students in first through third grade last spring and fall in over 100 school districts across 22 states.

CNN airs Back to School: Kids, Covid and the Fight to Reopen. Anchored by Jake Tapper, the special includes video diaries from parents, students and teachers that show the real-life, day-to-day challenges of education in the Covid era. CNN’s...

Before billions of dollars in expanded learning funding was approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom via Assembly Bill 86, researchers, practitioners and policy influencers met to discuss the status of expanded learning in California and how it is meeting student needs...