California is under-funding its schools by $22 billion dollars, according to a new report released last week. KUSI news anchor Lauren Phinney sat down with Jennifer Imazeki, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at SDSU, to discuss the...

Despite investing in education data systems, California produces little information on how to provide an effective education for its students, according to a 36-study analysis by the Policy Analysis for California Education Center at Stanford University. The study finds that...

In 2007, researchers associated with Stanford University released “Getting Down to Facts”–a massive compilation of studies of the California K-12 public school system. The hundreds of pages of voluminous research allowed both the state education establishment and its critics to...

This week, Louis and John pick out the highlights of the voluminous set of research reports on preK-12 education in California, Getting Down to Facts II, which was released Monday. The 36-study project, organized by Stanford University, examines pressing issues...

A troubling new research project finds that the achievement gap among California’s 6 million school children begins as early as kindergarten. What contributes to this startling inequity and what can be done to narrow the gap?

A troubling new research project finds that the achievement gap among California’s 6 million school children begins as early as kindergarten. What contributes to this startling inequity and what can be done to narrow the gap?

Sweeping reforms to the way California funds its public schools appear to be lifting student achievement, but this state may need to do and spend much more, particularly on early childhood education, if Californians hope to keep up with the...

A major research project released this week claims California has under-funded its schools by $25.6 billion, many California students are entering school already behind in learning and California schools don’t have nearly enough teachers, counselors and other personnel. The project...

In advance of a newly-elected Governor and State Legislature, a comprehensive study of the California PreK-12 education system was released earlier this week. The study, Getting Down to the Facts II, is the second effort to highlight the analysis and...

New research detailed in a report titled "Getting Down To Facts II" examines how California’s students are still lagging behind their peers nationwide, with minority, low-income or special education students typically faring the worst.

Both sides of California’s neoliberal divide will find something to like in “Getting Down to Facts II,” the sweeping new report on the state of public education released this week by Stanford University and PACE (Policy Analysis for California Education)...

It's a mixed bag for California's education system in an extensive new report. KCBS Radio reporter Keith Menconi says while the state is making gains in key test scores, troubling disparities along income and racial lines remain.

California's public school students score well below the national average in reading and math, and fall behind before they even enter kindergarten. That's according to the Getting Down to Facts Project, a wide-ranging study by Stanford and Policy Analysis for...

Researchers from Stanford University and Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) released a new study on K-12 education in California this week. Dr. Susanna Loeb, Principal Investigator, and Dr. Heather Hough, Executive Director of PACE will join us to discuss...

New research study "Getting Down To Facts" says California children are behind before they even enter kindergarten.

Sweeping reforms to the way California funds its public schools appear to be lifting student achievement, but this state may need to do and spend much more, particularly on early childhood education, if Californians hope to keep up with the...

What’s causing teacher shortages in California?Michigan State University researcher Katharine Strunk helps answer that question as part of a sweeping report on public education in the state.Getting Down to Facts II, released on Monday, is intended to help policymakers make...

When students enter school in California, they learn at a pace on par with—if not better than—those in other states. The problem is that they arrive far behind their national peers, and they never catch up. This conclusion, from a...

California ranks at or near the bottom of all states when it comes to the percentage of students with access to health and mental health care at schools. Yet, with $90 in added annual spending per student—which would total about...

EdSource interviews with Sean Reardon and Deborah Stipek, professors at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, about their contributions to the research project on California public education, Getting Down to Facts II. Reardon’s research found that California’s low-income children entered...

California schools do as well as or better than the national average in educating students, yet most entering students start with less education than most other children in American schools. As California kids are forced to play catch-up, some never...

California is lagging behind other states in properly overseeing the rise of charter schools and needs to do more to close the achievement gap for English learners, according to a research report released on Monday. The report from Stanford University...

California’s education policy agenda, in particular the near-simultaneous implementation of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), has created challenges and opportunities for the state. Coming on the heels of the Great Recession of 2008...

In a newly released study, Susan Moffitt, director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy at Watson, partners with Susanna Loeb, new director of the Annenberg Institute of School Reform, and other researchers for Getting Down to Facts...

In 2007, researchers associated with Stanford University released “Getting Down to Facts,” a massive compendium of studies of California public education. Here was arguably the key takeaway: Public schools have many needs that would benefit from additional funding, but no...