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To fill teacher jobs, community colleges offer new degrees
Community college-based teaching programs are rare, but growing. They can dramatically cut the cost and raise the convenience of earning a teaching degree, while making a job in education accessible to a wider diversity of people.
With students in turmoil, US teachers train in mental health
The California Department of Education is funding a Youth Mental Health First Aid program for any school district requesting it, and the pandemic has accelerated moves to make such courses a state requirement. The training program is operated by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and available in every state.
Balancing hopes, dreams and a low-paying college major
Liberal arts grads face longer odds compared with science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees, but a well-chosen humanities major doesn’t have to be a vow of poverty, writes Anna Helhoski.
California State University prepares to drop SATs and ACTs
California State University is poised to eliminate SAT and ACT standardized tests from its undergraduate admissions process, following a trend in higher education over concerns that the exams are unfair to minority and low-income students.
Career Education Making a Comeback in US High Schools
There was an emergency in Room 14. Three girls injured, one with a broken thighbone and maybe something more serious. Snapping on sterile gloves and kneeling before the worst-off patient, two 17-year-olds went to work.