Tag: Student Wellbeing

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State of Crisis 2026: A Deepening Crisis of Students Experiencing Homelessness Across California

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

Shining a light on record student homelessness in California, this report also documents racial and geographic disparities, effects on educational outcomes, and recommendations for funding and integrated supports.

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Missing bus passes, dual enrollment wins, and fights on Instagram: reporting from Oakland high school students

The Oaklandside

A team of youth reporters in Oakland reported on topics that mattered to them, including student transportation, school safety, equity in advanced placement course access, and other issues.

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Linked Learning Student Survey

Linked Learning Alliance

A survey of 4,301 California students in Linked Learning Pathways highlights perspectives on motivation, supportive relationships, real-world learning, skill development, college and career preparation, and aspirations after high school.

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Renewing Public Education’s Purpose

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Co-sponsored by the Stuart Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, this essay series examines the purpose of public education and how schools might evolve amid a changing world.

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National study of school cellphone bans shows benefits are not immediate

Stanford University School of Humanities & Sciences

A national study of school cellphone bans finds reduced phone use but mixed short-term effects on discipline and wellbeing and little impact on attendance or test scores.

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The Fear is Everywhere: U.S. High School Principals Report Widespread Effects of Immigration Enforcement

UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access

Based on a survey of high school principals in the 2024-25 school year, this study finds that the impact of immigration enforcement on students and communities was the top challenge facing schools.

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The Economic Milestones of Young Californians

Public Policy Institute of California

This report provides new context on how young Californians are progressing along key economic milestones and how these patterns have changed over time.

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Developing a Healthy School Climate in Community Schools

Learning Policy Institute

This report highlights five key dimensions of healthy school climate, offers research-based strategies to develop a healthy climate in community schools, and shares concrete illustrations of climate-oriented, high-leverage practices being implemented in existing community schools.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

Often Overlooked but Not Unseen: An Overview of Highly Mobile Youth in the U.S.

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

This brief provides a close look at the needs of highly mobile youth, identifies the systematic barriers these students face, and proposes targeted interventions to address their needs.

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2025 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being

Children Now

An interactive, online report that delivers a comprehensive picture of children’s health, education, and welfare in each of California’s 58 counties.

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Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in California

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

A study that explores how youth in foster care experience the foster care system, high school, and college, offering recommendations for these systems to better support these young people.

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Cultivating Relationships in Secondary Classrooms: Practices That Matter

Learning Policy Institute

This brief elevates the approaches that secondary school educators and staff can use to put relationships and caring at the center of their classroom practice.

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STEPS for Youth

UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent

An online tool that provides resources on adolescent brain and social development to help policymakers and other youth-focused professionals create more effective policies to support young people.

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Youth Civic Empowerment

YouthTruth

A report offering insight into the current state of youth civic empowerment, revealing troubling patterns of inequity in civic readiness.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

The Urgent Need for Child-Centered Artificial Intelligence Policies

National Center for Youth Law

This brief is a call to action for policymakers and stakeholders to prioritize the interests and rights of children and youth in discussions about AI regulation and policy.

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How Bay Area Youth Distributed 2.4M

Northern California Grantmakers

A video about the Generational Recovery Fund (GRF), a youth-led, time-limited Bay Area regional pooled fund that invested in helping Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth to successfully navigate their recovery from the harms of COVID-19.

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Expanding Horizons

Partnership for Children & Youth

A report that makes the case for investing in expaned learning for older youth, offers compelling evidence of their benefits, provides examples of what these programs look like in action, and charts a path forward for public policy advocates and education leaders.

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School Funding Effectiveness: Evidence From California’s Local Control Funding Formula

Learning Policy Institute

A study investigating the impacts of LCFF-induced increases in per-pupil spending on student achievement and behavioral outcomes.

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Put your money on the table: Interagency Coordination to Address the Crisis in Student Mental and Behavioral Health

WestEd

A report showing how county offices of education (COEs) play a critical role in coordinating and integrating services with other child-serving agencies to serve students and families more effectively.

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Free Range Humans

Harvard University, Graduate School of Education

A podcast that explores "how we can make schools fit for human consumption," hosted by Jal Mehta, professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Rod Allen, former district superintendent and Assistant Deputy Minister with the BC Ministry of Education.

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