blog post Reforming California’s Community College System By Hans Johnson, Olga Rodriguez, Marisol Cuellar Mejia May 31, 2019 Community colleges are implementing a number of reforms designed to help more students get a degree or a certificate or transfer to a four-year institution.
blog post California’s Digital Divide and the 2020 Census By Justin Goss May 21, 2019 A key challenge for the 2020 Census—the first to be conducted primarily online—is that high speed internet access is lower in areas of the state that are already considered hard to count.
blog post Exploring Math Pathways under Common Core By Niu Gao May 6, 2019 Common Core State Standards allow school districts to follow a traditional or integrated math pathway, and there are significant differences in how this choice varies across districts.
blog post Video: English as a Second Language in California Community Colleges By Mary Severance May 2, 2019 PPIC researcher Bonnie Brooks presents findings from a new report on ESL in community colleges, and an expert panel discusses how campuses across the state are taking steps to strengthen their ESL programs.
blog post Leveling the Playing Field in College Admissions By Hans Johnson, Sarah Bohn, Marisol Cuellar Mejia Apr 17, 2019 Although students from low-income families are less likely to enroll in college than students from high-income families, California is faring better than the rest of the US in broadening access to higher education.
blog post 2020 Census: Will All of California’s Children Be Counted? By Sarah Bohn, Vicki Hsieh Apr 10, 2019 Ensuring a complete and accurate count of young children—the age group most likely to be undercounted—is a big challenge.
blog post Helping Community College Students Succeed By Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Olga Rodriguez, Hans Johnson Mar 29, 2019 California’s community colleges are moving toward system-wide implementation of concurrent remedial support for students in transfer-level classes. Early evidence suggests that such “co-requisite” support increases course completion.
blog post Serving California’s Diverse College Students By Sergio Sanchez, Hans Johnson Feb 27, 2019 California is enrolling more historically underserved students in the state's public higher education systems, but helping them to graduate in four years remains a big challenge.
blog post More Students Than Ever Ready for UC and CSU By Jacob Jackson, Hans Johnson Feb 5, 2019 More students than ever in California are graduating from high school having completed college prep coursework, but can UC and CSU accommodate them?
blog post Many of California’s Highly Educated Workers Are Retiring By Hans Johnson Jan 24, 2019 Record numbers of Californians are retiring, and without producing more college graduates, the state could see a shortfall of 1.1 million highly educated workers by 2030.
