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The sudden need for distance learning imposed upon schools worldwide by the COVID-19 pandemic has created a huge market for online learning applications. Some have been around for decades while others seemed to have popped up overnight.

For the first time in its 38-year history, the GSE’s Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) will be exclusively online this summer, offering nearly all of its rigorous academic in-person courses as it has in previous years.

UC Berkeley hosted three leading Berkeley psychologists who discussed effective approaches and strategies for dealing with the anxiety, stress and uncertainty that are inherent parts of the COVID-19 crisis, for children and adults alike.

The original broadcast was live on Friday, April 17, Noon-12:30p Pacific. 

K-12 science teachers worldwide who find themselves suddenly giving lessons online are turning to the Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE), a free, open-source, standards-based inquiry science curricula that also provides peer-to-peer support and professional development.

The rush to push in-class learning into an online experience may be leaving out one crucial piece to helping students succeed – incentivising participation.

Many colleges and universities are facing the policy question of whether to make attendance of synchronous online sessions optional.

With growing research showing that performance on the SAT and ACT are impacted by ethnicity and socio-economics, Chancellor Carol T. Christ and other UC leaders say they are ready to end the use of such standardized tests in the college admissions process.

A three-year effort led by the GSE’s College and Career Academy Support Network (CCASN) has resulted in a series of reports designed to offer guidance to, and encourage greater collaboration among educators, policy makers, and researchers by defining research priorities around the key issues impacting equity in student outcomes from college and career pathways.

By Ellen Lee
Contributing Writer

A classically trained violinist, Rachel Chen has performed in quartets, on stage with orchestras, and even in spontaneous jam sessions with street musicians.

Now Chen’s musical background comes in handy as she studies the behavior and interactions of autistic individuals, in particular, stimming, or self-stimulating; and repetitive actions such as the flapping of hands, the continuous tapping of various objects, or the back-and-forth rocking of the body.