SAN FRANCISCO – We've heard a lot about California recruiting to fill a shortage of teachers with more than 10,000 vacancies in the last school year, according to the state commission that does credentialing.One San Francisco native hasn't lost the joy of teaching, as she started her 42nd year teaching kindergarten.For Yvonne Soracco, walking the campus hallways is like turning pages in a scrapbook of her career. The frames on the top row show...
A Bay Area Elementary School has spent $250,000 on a 'Woke Kindergarten' program just to see its student's literacy and numeracy rates plunge. The 'Woke Kindergarten' program states its mission as an 'abolitionist early learning ecosystem' that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression which are barriers to learning.After spending the federal money on the program Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward saw numeracy among...
SPRINGFIELD — Students are talking about saving for retirement, learning how to invest in the stock market and creating a budget to decorate a dorm room — all in middle school.Concerned children may be graduating with few financial skills, getting into debt and facing financial problems because of it, the school department has started a new program to teach students how to manage money before they graduate.It is being implemented across the...
Primary care screening visits for young children serve as useful sources of data for assessing social and developmental markers. It is not clear how this screening data can be used to predict whether children are school ready. Study: Early Correlates of School Readiness Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Linking Health and School Data. Image Credit: FamVeld/Shutterstock.com A new study appears in JAMA Pediatrics that explored associations...
