Less than two months into this school year, three families seeking shelter in Monterey County asked for motel vouchers from their children’s schools and were turned away. The vouchers, along with several other services for students experiencing homelessness, are no more. The families sought help from the schools because, in the past, that was where … Read more
Children who use cellphones, smartwatches and other personal devices excessively are more likely to have shorter attention spans, be more anxious, have trouble thinking critically, be less physically fit and have problems interacting socially, according to research. The debate about how much screen time is too much has been ongoing for more than two decades, … Read more
California State University and the University of California (UC) are welcoming student activists back to campus this fall with revamped protest rules that signal a harder line on encampments, barriers and, under certain circumstances, the wearing of face masks. Cal State, the nation’s largest public university system, was first to issue its policy Thursday, a … Read more
The University of California admitted a record number of California resident first-year students for the upcoming fall term, offering a spot to 93,920 of them, the university system announced on July 31. UC also made more admission offers to community college transfer students and to low-income students. Latino students were the largest demographic group of … Read more