A decade ago, California’s political apparatus finally recognized a yawning achievement gap in its public schools, separating poor and English-learner students from their more privileged classmates. While overall, California’s nearly …
A matchup of the top-ranked offense against the top-ranked defense was no contest as Florida State defeated Stanford 5-1 in the NCAA women’s soccer championship game Monday in Cary, N.C. …
BY CAROLYN JONES | CalMatters California’s $53 million investment in teaching its youngest and lowest-performing students to read has shown dramatic — and relatively fast — results, researchers at Stanford …
US artificial intelligence (AI) video generator start-up Pika Labs has become the latest sensation in China’s tech community, after its co-founder Demi Guo was identified as a native of Hangzhou, …
By Sandee LaMotte | CNN Healthy twins who ate a vegan diet for eight weeks had lower “bad” low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol, better blood sugar levels, and greater weight …
Mention government shutdowns and most people think about standoffs in Congress. But in the Bay Area, which has long been synonymous with protest, a different kind of government shutdown has …
On a cold December night in 1977 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a mysterious hovering object was reported to be flying overhead. Then a luminous hot molten rock fell to earth. …
BY MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN | CalMatters During back-to-back days at one of California’s largest universities, hundreds of students took to marches, impassioned speeches and megaphones to condemn the mass death that …
Studying virtual reality Los Gatos High School social studies teacher David Homa is partnering with Stanford University’s Human Virtual Reality Design Lab on the use of virtual reality (VR) in …
An Arab Muslim student at Stanford was injured in a hit-and-run traffic incident Friday, which the California Highway Patrol is investigating as a possible hate crime, university officials said. The …