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Taxes, Finances: Why Don’t We Know More?

What is financial literacy? What’s keeping us from it? And should public K-12 schools take on a bigger role in providing finance education?

Then and now: Chicanas’ push for social change

Reporter Ricky Rodas has the story on Mexican-American women’s role in organizing the 1968 East LA walkouts, and what the younger generation are doing today.

Alternative Education Models: Removing the Barriers to Entry

High barriers to entry prevent many people from going to college and getting any type of post-secondary education. Simultaneously, companies struggle to find talent for their jobs. What are the alternatives to wasting so much talent?

Making Community Colleges Work Better

Community Colleges do a pretty good job getting students in. But they don’t do a great job getting students out — at least not with a degree or transfer. What’s being done to address this problem?

Oakland Promise Turns Two

The Oakland Promise is a program designed to triple the number of Oakland students who graduate from high school over the next decade. Reporter Cassady Rosenblum checks in to see how it is going in year two.

Hope for DACA at Berkeley

Arturo Fernandez, Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, stands with his younger brothers at a Cal football game. Photo courtesy of Arturo Fernandez.

Arturo Fernandez is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. He’s also a DACA recipient. As the government threats to rescind DACA, Fernandez is concerned about the future.