The Ed100 Impact Report, 2024
What a year!
Today we released the Ed100 Impact Report for 2024. This post summarizes a few of the highlights. It was a big year for our little crew!
California’s education system evolves constantly, with new ideas, new jargon, and new results to learn from. Our role is to explain. We help people understand the system so that they can make it work well, with clarity about tradeoffs and perspectives. It’s gloriously complex work.
By the numbers, 2024
In the last year we sent our subscribers one email per week, as they have come to expect. Of these 51 emails, 40 highlighted new posts to our blog; the rest announced updates to our lessons or to important posts. Of course, we don’t announce all of our updates. In all, we made 112 amendments worth counting (56 each in English and Spanish).
19% read Ed100 in Spanish
Readers visited our lessons and blog posts more than 160,000 times in 2024. We made 100% of the content available in both English and Spanish. Views of our Spanish pages, all of which are professionally translated, made up about 19% of the total.
Facts and figures are important to our readers; last year we produced or updated more than 80 interactive charts, and we made all of the data public.
Looking forward
As we explain in our Impact Report, loads of opportunities and challenges lie ahead. There are also many ways to get involved, in ways big and small.
Helping professors prepare well-informed teachers
Just to pick just one example, we would love help to learn more about how Ed100 is being used in teacher preparation programs — and what we could do to support educators and students involved. We are seeing increasing usage of Ed100 in college courses because it’s free, clear, up to date, and has quizzes built in. Known adopters include educators at UC Santa Barbara, Mt. St. Mary’s University, CSU Monterey Bay, CSU East Bay, CSU Fullerton and Cabrillo College.
This is just one of the opportunities we explain in the Impact Report. If getting involved in Ed100’s work sounds exciting to you, have a look at the full Impact Report and don’t be shy about getting in touch with us!
Some highlights from 2024
Here are a few of the posts you might have missed in 2024.
Test scores aren’t rising. Whose hot potato is this now?
Test scores aren’t bouncing back. Why? Who’s responsible? Each year, millions of students take state tests, which show flat results and huge achievement gaps. Grade inflation is leaving parents with plenty of room for wishful thinking. Can we rely on local accountability alone to fix this, or does California’s system need a rethink?
School district disasters
School districts have a lot of power to make great decisions…or not. In a state with about 1,000 school districts, snafus are inevitable, right? Why don’t more disasters happen? This post explains California’s system of safeguards, which have been extraordinarily effective, but are about to be tested in new ways.
New laws, 2024
This post summarizes California laws passed in 2024 that affect students, parents, and teachers. The post includes useful links to each new law, its legislative history, and relevant context. Whew!
Flunking Democracy
Here is the question of the day: Are we flunking democracy? America depends on an informed public to engage in issues with intelligence and compassion. Are our schools delivering? Well, there's good news and bad news…
What is censure?
A censure resolution is an official act of public rebuke. In recent years, school boards have grappled with them with growing frequency, and at substantial cost. In this post, Leslie Reckler explains the process, which she knows all too well.
The battle over Ethnic Studies
California law will soon require all high school students to pass a semester-long course in Ethnic Studies to graduate. School districts are wrestling with how to meet the requirement, including how to select materials and prepare faculty members.
Don't forget to read the full report here.
Thanks for all that you do!
— Jeff, Carol and Selisa
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