State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced the California Department of Education (CDE) has restored a time-saving Web tool to make it easier for school districts to create state-mandated School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs). [...]

California GEAR UP supports middle schools in developing a self-sustaining college-going culture for ALL students. The program serves whole schools through the adults that have the greatest impact on student life and experience: the principals, [...]

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results show California’s fourth and eighth grade students continue to make incremental gains in reading and mathematics scores, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson reported today. [...]

The time has finally come to apply to become a member of an elite group: A California GEAR UP Middle School. California GEAR UP supports middle schools in developing a self-sustaining college-going culture for ALL [...]

You are invited to learn about how California GEAR UP can help you develop a self-sustaining college-goingculture for ALL students. Spend a half-day with us (7:30—11:30 am) and hear from middle schools that have experienced [...]

GEAR UP is at risk of being reduced or cut completely, and it is time to act. But do you get queasy when you receive our calls to action?  Do you feel others are better [...]

Valley High School in Elk Grove, CA, a California GEAR UP school, celebrated last night as 94% of their senior class (the GEAR UP cohort) walked across the stage and received their diplomas. The atmosphere [...]

Doing What Works is a collaboration from WestEd, the American Institutes for Research and RMC Research Corporation, is a great multi-media site that is a wonderful clearinghouse for research based education practices online. This site [...]