LPI In the News

Los Angeles Times by David Kirp | In this Los Angeles Times op-ed, UC Berkeley Professor and LPI Senior Fellow David Kirp explains how and why money matters in education, and points to new research that shows California’s Local Control Funding Formula is shrinking the achievement gap.

This story, filed by Al Jazeera, provides a compelling overview of a recent LPI event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Kerner Commission report on race and equality in the United States. The report concludes that racial inequity is still a pressing concern and child poverty is worse.

In this podcast, Linda Darling-Hammond discusses Empowered Educators: How high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the world. The book explores how several countries and jurisdictions have developed comprehensive teaching and learning systems that produce a range of positive outcomes, from student achievement to equity and from a professionalized teaching workforce to the integration of research and practice. 

LPI researchers are making a significant impact in shaping educational practice and policy, according to the latest RHSU Edu-Scholar rankings released last week by Education Week. The rankings, in their eighth year, recognize the top 200 university affiliated scholars whose work is impacting practice and policy in meaningful ways.

Tara Kini, LPI's Director of State Policy, was in Sacramento on December 5, 2017 to testify at a joint oversight hearing of the Higher Education and Education committees on the shortfall of credentialed teachers in California. Watch the recording.

The Washington Post | This post is a deep, definitive dive into teacher attrition and what can be done about it. It was written by Linda Darling-Hammond, Leib Sutcher and Desiree Carver-Thomas, all of the California-based Learning Policy Institute, which conducts independent, high-quality research to improve education policy and practice.

Newsweek | The U.S. Labor Department predicts that the teaching sector will grow 6% by the year 2024. In addition to this, a recent Learning Policy Institute report raised concern about the number of underprepared teachers who have been assigned to some schools. More than ever, opportunities for effective and inspirational teachers are at an all-time high.

Newsweek | California voters may have a solution to their state's teacher shortage: paying instructors the same hefty salaries as they pay their politicians. The proposed Teachers Fair Pay referendum would peg teachers' pay to the wages of state lawmakers, roughly $104,000 a year. It’s a bold move in a time when schools are desperately scrambling for innovative ways to retain teachers and recruit new teachers.

EdNC | Though the UNC System saw a rise in educator preparation program enrollment in fall 2016 for the first time in several years, the changes may not reflect increased interest in teaching as a career. The data collection methods used in 2016 differed from previous years which may have influenced the results.

Chicago Tribune | Colleges and universities are trying to figure out how to entice more people into the teaching careers to fill vacancies, a dilemma that down the road could pose ramifications throughout educational leadership.