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‘Just-right’ books: Does leveled reading hurt the weakest readers?
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Teachers become gatekeepers to books, a longstanding practice in many schools where the assigned reading level is treated as sacred.Bay Area
California school board races don’t see red wave
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Conservative organizations spent more than a year recruiting, training and endorsing candidates in an effort to win what are generally considered nonpartisan seats.California
Windfall for arts education with the likely passage of Proposition 28
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California initiative will bring nearly $1 billion to K-12 schools for drama, music, artBay Area
Supreme Court conservative majority signals opposition to affirmative action
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In 1996 race-conscious admissions were banned at public California colleges, which have since struggled to enroll diverse student bodies.Bay Area
Study finds college president searches favor white men and offers strategies to change that
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A new report comes at a critical time in California, with positions at the helm open at CSU, community colleges, and other institutions.Bay Area
Would Prop. 1 allow abortions after fetal viability? Legal experts say no
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Proponents say that passing the proposition enshrines the right to abortion into the California Constitution so that a future court cannot take it away.Bay Area
Stanford-Harvard ‘scorecard’ translates California’s test scores into months of missed learning
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The "Education Recovery Scorecard" shows vast disparities among districts in how much learning declined during the pandemic.Education
EdSource special report: New literacy standards for teacher candidates could be pivotal to improving student reading scores
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This is the fifth in an occasional series on the dramatic national push to revamp how reading is being taught in the earliest grades.Bay Area
