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Lists a series of recommendations on policies and practices for increasing the productivity of industry-valued degrees and credentials. The purpose of the document is to provide strategies for addressing the current struggle that California's community colleges face in keeping pace with the higher levels of skills and education that employers are requiring from their applicants.
Provides an in depth explanation on what student centered learning is, how it has impacted student learning, how it has impacted teacher's methods of teaching, and how it has changed the structure of the school by examining the case study of a small school in Maine that is the in midst of using this innovative approach to education.
Houses the Quality Schooling Framework (QSF), which offers California's educators timely tools and practices to guide effective planning, policy, expenditure, and instructional decisions at all schools and districts.
The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse notable gains made by Black and Latinx students in Los Angeles County and could signal similar problems for the rest of the state, according to a new report which also notes stubborn education disparities and suggests the COVID-19 pandemic could “threaten to offset and undo years of improvements for California’s high schools and community colleges” in particular.
Many Black and Latino students start their education at California's community colleges. Yet, only 9 percent of Black students and 10 percent of Latino students transfer within four years. That reality took center stage this week as college leaders and others strategized on how California’s higher education systems can improve the transfer process for more students.
The University of Texas at San Antonio’s graduation rates were in the deep basement a decade ago. Only 1 in 10 students finished in four years and just 3 in 10 in six years. But things have dramatically improved since then at the majority-Latino school, whose main campus is located 15 miles north of downtown’s tourist attractions.
The Black Educator Teacher Residency at Cal State University Bakersfield is aimed not only at recruiting Black teaching candidates but at transforming the education system for Black students.
Given the complexity of California’s higher education and workforce ecosystem, decision makers must understand the barriers that keep meaningful higher education-employer partnerships from occurring. These relationships are central to boosting student employment outcomes, ensuring workforce needs are met, and sustaining the state’s economic strength and competitiveness.
A community college in the East Bay is offering a semester of free tuition and many other perks to most of its students in the coming months — a nod to the continuing challenges they face due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.