Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I Street, Sacramento
In California, over 60% of high school students enroll in college after graduation. Yet, less than half of these students successfully finish college six years later. Across the state, efforts to improve the transition to college abound in policy and in practice. In this seminar, we will present a comprehensive overview of California’s college readiness metrics and new statewide data on college persistence and completion.
Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I Street, Sacramento
Improving education equity is one of the most important goals of California's education system, and undergirds the state's policy structures, including how money is allocated to districts and how districts and schools are held accountable for student outcomes. However, the state's current measurement approach, like most across the county, is insufficient for understanding the extent to which our education systems are providing equitable opportunities for California's students.
Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I Street, Sacramento
There is a growing consensus in education that schools can and should attend to students’ social-emotional development. As a result, in California, policymakers and practitioners alike have become interested in measuring students's social-emotional learning (SEL), both to understand individual students' needs and to evaluate schools' efforts to support them. In this seminar, researchers will review a wide portfolio of research using data from the CORE districts, which serve nearly one million students and have been administering an SEL survey to all students in grades 4-12 since 2014.
