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December 01, 2022A home that smooths the college path for former prisoners
For students who have spent time in jail, it’s extra difficult to secure housing. Yet having a home, with space to study and supportive roommates, can make it a lot easier for these students to succeed.
We talk with a student whose college path was transformed by a house for formerly incarcerated students and with a reporter about how this program came about.
Guests:
Jimmie Conner, Student, CSU Fullerton
Betty Márquez Rosales, Reporter, EdSource
Read more from EdSource: From prison to a campus home: CSU Fullerton welcomes formerly incarcerated students
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
20 min
November 17, 2022What teachers need to support English learners
Two out of five students in California schools speak a language other than English at home. Teachers need more training to bring all of those students to proficiency in English and help them succeed in other subjects.
What makes professional development for teachers of English learners effective? We hear from teachers, parents and professors about workshops that gave them tools to work with students who are learning English, and about what their own childhood experiences as English learners taught them.
Guests:
Elvira Armas, director of the Center for Equity for English Learners, and affiliated faculty, School of Education at Loyola Marymount University
Laura Barbosa, vice president of the District English Learner Advisory Committee, San Leandro Unified School District
Marina Berry, First grade teacher, Lodi Unified School District
Nicole Thompson, Fourth grade teacher, Pajaro Valley Unified School District
Natalie Tran, professor of education, California State University Fullerton, and director, National Resource Center for Asian Languages.
Read more from EdSource:
Collaborative, hands-on trainings crucial for English language educators
Teachers and students both learned from this intensive summer English class
How language-rich math can help students learning English
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
20 min
November 10, 2022Why can’t more students take college courses in high school?
A student shares how taking college courses while still in high school helped her get ahead in college and save on tuition. But access to these courses, known as dual enrollment, remains uneven across California. In many areas, Latino and Black students are disproportionately under-enrolled in dual enrollment classes.
Guests:
Aliha Vega, Student, UC Berkeley
Ashley A. Smith, Reporter, EdSource
Read more from EdSource: Growing numbers of California high schoolers dual enroll in college courses, but access uneven statewide
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
21 min
November 03, 2022How counselors are tracking down missing students
Half of all students in California’s largest district, Los Angeles Unified, missed 15 or more days of school last year. This week we hear from an attendance counselor who tracks down those missing students and tries to get them back to class.
Guests:
Ofelia Ryan, President, Association of Pupil Services and Attendance Counselors, Los Angeles Unified
Kate Sequeira, Journalism resident, EdSource
Read more from EdSource: LAUSD makes push to bring chronically absent students back to school
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
19 min
October 27, 2022Conservatives aim to take control of school boards
The California Republican Party, churches and conservative organizations have recruited and trained dozens of candidates to run for school board across California.
Some of their goals include fighting against teaching about racism and racial equity and the acceptance of different gender identities. What’s at stake in school board elections?
Guests:
John Rogers, Professor of education, UCLA
Diana Lambert, Reporter, EdSource
Read more from EdSource: Conservatives are waging a war for control over California school boards
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
22 min
October 20, 2022Kids or cops: who should use this library building?
A plan to convert a library building in the farming town of McFarland in the Central Valley into a police station sparked widespread protest.
Kern County recently expanded the library’s hours to open five days a week. Yet the city leaders of McFarland are doubling down, saying the police need the library building to meet the town’s public safety needs.
At the heart of this debate: What is the role of a library? Who does it serve?
Guests:
Andie Sullivan, Director, Kern County Library
Emma Gallegos, Reporter, EdSource
Read more from EdSource:
Once again, McFarland city leaders lobby the county to turn its library into a police station
Cities and towns across California only get the libraries they can afford
Amid community pressure, county blocks McFarland’s plan to convert library into a police station
A small town in Kern County contemplates turning its community library into a police station
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
25 min
October 13, 2022How can we fix the student housing crunch?
Kenya Abner and her husband struggled to find student housing for their family. Twenty years later, their daughter ran into the same problem.
Student housing is so scarce in California that tens of thousands of students are left without stable places to live. To tackle that shortage, experts say college leaders must try new and innovative solutions.
Guests:
Kenya Abner, Student, CSU Sacramento
Michael Burke, Reporter, EdSource
Keith Curry, President, Compton College
Su Jin Gatlin Jez, Executive director, California Competes
Jo Mackness, Assistant vice chancellor of student affairs, UC Berkeley
Read more from EdSource:
EdSource Roundtable: What will it take to address California’s student housing crisis
How California is responding to dire student housing shortage
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
16 min
September 29, 2022A mother fights back after her kids are restrained at school
When Elyse K’s daughter was 8, she told her mom that at school “they’d put her up on the wall, like a coat on a coat rack.”
Elyse K took the school to court. The lawsuit filed alleged that a school operated by Contra Costa County County Office of Education for children with severe emotional and behavioral challenges used extreme tactics — such as physical restraints and isolation — to punish students and control their behavior. A recent settlement in the case requires the state to closely monitor the school and to train staff in positive discipline.
How common is excessive restraint in special education schools in California? And how groundbreaking is this settlement?
Guests:
Elyse K., Mother of twins
Carolyn Jones, Reporter, EdSource
Read more from EdSource:
Settlement requires state to monitor Contra Costa school that restrained students
Lawsuit challenges use of restraint, seclusion in California special education school
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
18 min
September 22, 2022How a library inside juvenile hall aims to break the prison pipeline
Not knowing how to read well can make it more likely for students to drop out of high school, and to end up in jail. By one count, 85 percent of youth in the juvenile justice system have difficulty reading.
This week, we visit a county library trying to boost literacy and a love for books among teenagers who are incarcerated in juvenile hall.
Guests:
Lisa Harris, Library Manager, Social Justice Services, Alameda County Library
Betty Márquez Rosales, Reporter, EdSource
Read more from EdSource: An island of reading for youth in the California juvenile justice system
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
21 min
September 15, 2022Why do so many kids struggle to learn to read?
VIDEO | Is My Kid Learning How to Read?
Esti Iturralde, who has a PhD in psychology, conducts a little experiment with her daughter on how children best learn to read. Watch the video here.
Half of California third graders can’t read at grade level.
There’s exhaustive brain research that suggests that most children must be explicitly taught how to connect sounds with letters, yet many children are not taught how to do that. Why do so many children struggle to read? And why are we still debating over how they should be taught?
Guests:
Esti Iturralde, Parent
Karen D’Souza, Reporter, EdSource
John Fensterwald, Editor-at-large, EdSource
Read more from EdSource:
A movement rises to change the teaching of reading
California does little to ensure all kids read by third grade
California’s Reading Wars History
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.
26 min

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