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Nov 26, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Vani Sanganeria |Eric Chung |Amy DiPierro |Diana Lambert
News Brief Tuesday November 26, 2024 8:32 am Inspections of 18 California schools by the State Auditor’s Office found significant maintenance deficiencies and safety risks on some of the campuses, according to the report “Custodial Staffing and Cleanliness Standards,” released last week. State legislators asked the Auditor’s Office to assess cleanliness and custodial staffing in California schools.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Eric Chung
A student in Oakland's Skyline High School Education and Community Health Pathway sculpts a clay model of the endocrine system. Credit: Allison Shelley for American EducationIt’s time to balance out our lopsided education system. Millions of parents and students have long struggled with our one-size-fits-all model, which primarily teaches to, tests for and celebrates students as theorists, not practitioners.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Eric Chung |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg
News Brief Monday November 25, 2024 1:55 pm Jane Close Conoley, the first woman to lead Cal State Long Beach, will retire in June 2025 following more than a decade as the university’s president. Conoley’s tenure coincided with a period of growth at Cal State Long Beach, the second-largest campus in the CSU system. Student headcount has increased 12% since 2014, when Conoley beganleading the campus.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Eric Chung |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg |John Fensterwald
News Brief Monday November 25, 2024 9:24 am California school districts is rolling out a resource hub that will offer extensive information on all aspects of school facilities. The National Center on School Infrastructure is housed at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Urban and Regional Development and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Eric Chung |Amy DiPierro |Louis Freedberg
News Brief Monday November 25, 2024 9:23 am The United States Attorney’s Office and the Homeland Security Investigations will start educating LAUSD students, parents and staff about cybersecurity. The program will particularly focus on avoiding sexual dangers for preeteens and teens, the Attorney’s Office announced. However, it can also be tailored to staff, parents and younger students.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
blog.logrocket.com | Eric Chung
Creating harmonious color palettes is more of an art and less of a science. And when it comes to choosing colors that work well together, there is no perfect approach. You might find a color wheel or palette generator helpful for creating harmonious combinations — but some might like a color combination that others find clashing. Clashing colors happen when two colors simply don’t resonate or work together due to their unrelated color properties.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
blog.logrocket.com | Eric Chung
Wearable technology, or wearables, has become increasingly popular among consumers, especially over the past decade. In modern history, wearables first appeared around the 1950s with the transistor radio — a portable device small enough to wear on one’s wrist. From there, we saw the calculator watch in the 1970s, the Walkman in the 1980s, and more recently, Fitbit and other health-tracking devices. Now, wearable technology has become mainstream.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
pacificprime.hk | Eric Chung
In today’s ever-evolving business landscape in Hong Kong, talent attraction and retention have become one of the top priorities for businesses, no matter startups, SMEs, or MNCs. As such, many employers have chosen to offer group medical insurance to take care of them and keep them in business. The two types of insurance policies for employees in Hong Kong are Employee Compensation Insurance (ECI) and Group Medical Insurance (GMI). What are the differences between the two?
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
blog.logrocket.com | Eric Chung
As UX designers, our job involves empathizing with users — understanding their thoughts and feelings in different contexts. And the psychology behind how people think can help explain why they behave a certain way when using a product. One key psychological concept that can greatly enhance UX design is priming. Priming, in general, refers to how exposure to one stimulus influences a person’s response to a subsequent stimulus, often unconsciously.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
blog.logrocket.com | Eric Chung
The role of a UX designer has evolved significantly over the past decade. Or perhaps just how the industry segments and labels designers has changed. Today, we have UX designers, UI designers, visual designers, web designers, product designers, and now, growth designers. In a world where everything runs on data, businesses are continuously investing in growth and optimization. A business that’s not growing is a dying business.
