An expanding pool of alternative teacher training programs is capitalizing on the belief that the more experience an aspiring teacher has in a classroom, the better. Yet experts acknowledge that little is known about which strategies actually work best.

Schools are working to curb the sale of junk food and tighten their nutritional standards. But those health efforts are undermined when students can leave campus at lunch to eat whatever they want.

Fruit and veggies or cupcakes and candy? Once children leave the house in the morning, what they eat is out of their parents’ control.

If some of California’s 72 community college districts could consolidate their bureaucracies, millions of dollars could be saved and redirected to pay for additional class sections and student services.