How we can make children around the world smarter
First, a quiz: 1. What’s a reason rooted in biology that young Americans today have higher IQs on average than those of us who grew up in the 1970s …
early education
SJSU offers new early education teaching credential programs
In one of the first-in-the-state programs, San Jose State University will offer a new teaching credential this fall for educators interested in teaching three-year-olds through third graders. In May, the …
Can AI-powered dyslexia treatment cure students’ learning disabilities?
Learning disabilities have historically been considered lifelong, incurable conditions. While treatment and early intervention has made it possible for people to learn how to live with their conditions, they’ve largely …
Alum Rock Union School District board fires Superintendent Hilaria Bauer after a decade on the job – The Mercury News
Alum Rock Union School District Superintendent Hilaria Bauer has been ousted after a decade on the job. Last week, the district’s board of trustees voted 3-2 to terminate Bauer’s contract, …
Head Start program leaders say federal aid is not enough to serve all qualified children
RICHMOND — Maria Chavez first heard about George Miller III Children’s Center almost two decades ago when a neighbor recommended that she send her now-18-year-old daughter there for preschool. After …
California schools gained billions during COVID-19 pandemic. Now the money is running out
BY CAROLYN JONES | CalMatters An end to billions of dollars in federal Covid relief funds, declining enrollment, staff raises, hiring binges and stagnant state funding should combine over the …
Investing in America’s children pays, even if Mom is on drugs
For too many American children, the future is already written. Their parents’ income broadly predicts what their earnings will be in adulthood. For those in poverty, the chances of breaking …
Woodshop has been disappearing from California schools for decades. Here’s why one Bay Area teacher is bringing it back.
PLEASANT HILL — Dust replaced sawdust in the eight years that Valley View Middle School’s woodshop sat dormant. After a search to replace a retiring instructor proved fruitless, power tools …
Students’ civil rights violated at 3 schools, lawyers say
RICHMOND — John F. Kennedy High School was so flush with teachers in the 1960s and ’70s that staff boasted of their pioneering food services training program and nationally ranked …
Berkeley Baby Book Project offers free books, aims to close literacy gap
Seventeen-month-old Elliott Busa eagerly waits as a new package, addressed directly to him, arrives at his doorstep. He already knows what’s inside, and he can hardly contain himself as the …