k-12 education

Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills — such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet.…
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Hayward school district administrators failed to respond to multiple complaints about an educator teaching antisemitic material in his classroom, the findings of a six-month independent investigation have found, the latest chapter of a…
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OAKLAND — Jorge Lerma, a candidate with relatively little financial backing, is in front of Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez in the race for a crucial swing seat on the politically divided, cash-strapped Oakland Unified School District board. In…
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Studying virtual reality Los Gatos High School social studies teacher David Homa is partnering with Stanford University’s Human Virtual Reality Design Lab on the use of virtual reality (VR) in schools. Homa, along with a Stanford professor…
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Five Saratoga High School students earned kudos for their short documentary about a small California city that is a dumping ground for toxic waste. Seniors Simarya Ahuja, George Hu, Nicita Raamkumar Alexa Shuey and Caitlin Weber received an…
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If there’s a clear winner in the ongoing culture war clashes involving Temecula’s school board, it’s probably the lawyers. Since a conservative majority took office in December, legal costs directly associated with the Temecula Valley…
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BY CAROLYN JONES AND MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN | CalMatters For students of color, the Supreme Court’s recent ban on affirmative action has left them frustrated but undaunted as they plow through college application season. Some California…
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American higher education is in a tug-of-war over the merits and potential abuses of AI. Fearing the self-learning artificial intelligence algorithm will render meaningless the traditional teacher-student relationship, some want to ban the…
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A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. This time last year, John Carlo Chan was teaching students half a world away. He’d been educating 30 kids on the autism spectrum in his native…
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OAKLAND — The special election next week for a key Oakland school board seat features two candidates, but only one will get a flashy mailer delivered to voters’ mailboxes in the coming days — thanks to a hefty dose of labor spending. It’s a…
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