Joining a national debate about the Los Angeles Times‘ recent publication of its own evaluations of 6,000 elementary school teachers, UC Berkeley is hosting a Sept. 27 experts forum, “Grading the Teachers: Measures, Media and Policies.” The education school is...

To help lay the groundwork for reforming California's faltering school system, more than 30 researchers nationwide have launched the largest independent investigation ever of how the state governs and finances education. Stanford Associate Professor of Education Susanna Loeb, an economist...

With more teachers entering the profession as interns, California has reduced the number of under-prepared teachers by half.  However, the vast majority of intern teachers are assigned to low achieving schools serving poor and minority students, according to a new...

This annual report provides an update on California’s teacher development and teacher quality policies; discusses trends in the supply of and demand for teachers; examines data on novice, underprepared, out of field teachers; and investigates the local policies and decisions...

Most teachers are ill-prepared to meet the needs of the children struggling to learn English in California's public schools, according to a new study by researchers at the UC Davis. And as the number of English learners increases, they say...

This report is based on a survey of more than 5,000 California teachers that examined their experiences, challenges, and professional development needs in teaching English language learner students. The report presents background on the issues facing teachers of English language...

This report, produced by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd, provides the latest available data and analysis of California’s teaching workforce and examines the preparation, induction, and professional development of teachers. The report also examines...

An extensive study has found an urgent need for more licensed child care throughout Los Angeles County--and revealed that only a handful of in-home programs and day-care centers are accredited, suggesting some children may not be receiving the brain-stimulating experiences...

Teachers might be willing to have more say in how the schools are run in exchange for little or no salary increase. The Los Angeles district tried such a technique soon after Anton and Bernstein took over their respective organizations...

None of the three major candidates has come up so far with a detailed, comprehensive approach to fixing the state’s struggling system of public schools. Nor has any of them added much to their initial offerings. Yet just their interest...

California schools are suffering from a severe shortage of bilingual teachers, leaving many districts unable to find enough qualified teachers to keep up with the sharply rising number of pupils who know little or no English. Educators and state officials...

A recent report by USC education professors Allan Odden and David D. Marsh for Policy Analysis for California Education indicates that when schools put together all the critical reforms, they show improvement. All our estimates indicate that about 30% of...

A recent report by the Policy Analysis for California Education, an education think tank, predicts that an increase of students and retirements in an aging teaching force will create a need for between 85,000 and 135,000 new teachers in California...

Five years after Proposition 13 took away money from California schools, Senate Bill 813 brought it back—but with strings attached. The bill, hailed as the largest educational reform measure in California's history, was passed in 1983. Its provisions were backed...

California "simply rubber-stamps" graduates of education schools before sending them into the classrooms, says a new report critical of state teaching standards. But two San Diego city school district officials say more money and higher public esteem would be necessary...