The California Report: South L.A. Foster Kid Faces Uncertain Future
May 3, 2013 Coriah Welch has about 20 colleges to choose from after she graduates. But the decision is a difficult one. For the last few years, Welch has been raising three of her four half-brothers in...
View ArticleOakland Tribune: East Oakland program helps youth become `agents of change'
April 19, 213 By Katherine Brown In looking at the negative perception many people have of East Oakland, one would think that there was no opportunity for success, especially among youth. With limited...
View ArticleOakland Tribune: Oakland: Claremont Middle finds success with twin principals
May 30, 2013 By Maya Mirsky OAKLAND -- As Reginald Richardson, co-principal at Claremont Middle School, walks down the hall, he stops constantly -- to hug a staff member, shake hands with a parent,...
View ArticleThe Education Report: An unwise cut: help for new Oakland teachers
By Katy Murphy May 29, 2013 Steven Weinberg, a retired Oakland teacher and occasional blog contributor, writes about a cut to a program that supports hundreds of new teachers each year. Since my...
View ArticleOakland Local: From prison to Phi Theta Kappa: How one Oakland youth is...
June 6, 2013 By Jon Leckie When Jonathan Roach graduated from high school, he was thirsty for higher education, but as an inmate in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall, the opportunity didn’t exist. Yet...
View ArticleOakland Local: OUSD names new school board member
June 13, 2013 The OUSD school board just voted to appoint Anne Campbell-Washington to represent District 4, given former board member Gary Yee’s appointment as Acting Superintendent. Anne...
View ArticleNew Initiative Aims to Double Percentage of Oakland Youth Reading on Grade...
PRESS CONFERENCE: MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013 AT 10:30 AM; Oakland Marriott City Center (1001 Broadway Oakland, CA 94607) New Initiative Aims to Double Percentage of Oakland Youth Reading on Grade Level by...
View Article100 Black Men Community School of the Bay Area
KQED will be working with the 100 Black Men Community of the Bay Area on an upcoming Teacher Town Hall on September 12, 2013. The videos were created by Joshua Alexander to showcase the continued...
View ArticleOakland Local: Education Voices: Safe routes to schools are elusive in Oakland
June 27, 2013 By Barbara Grady, Irene and Jon Leckie Kahmaria Adams, 15, listens to gospel music on her commute to school through the harrowing streets of East Oakland. She takes two city buses to get...
View ArticleEven Odds: Fighting the odds for Oakland's young black males
Story by Jill Tucker It was the first Monday in May, and Thomas Logwood was heading to class. There were just six weeks until the end of the school year at Castlemont High inOakland, and every week...
View ArticleSF Gate: June Jordan School for Equity gets a break on testing
Story by Jill Tucker Photos by Mike Kepka Normally at this time of year, teachers and administrators at San Francisco's June Jordan School for Equity would be starting to gear up for the standardized...
View ArticleNPR: Fed Up With Zero Tolerance In Schools, Advocates Push For Change
Story by Laura Isensee Photo Credit: KUHF In 2010, De'angelo Rollins got into a fight with a bully at his new middle school in Bryan, Texas. His mother, Marjorie Rollins Holman, says her shy son...
View ArticleMind Shift: Teaching in the New (Abundant) Economy of Information
Story by Shawn McCusker In the past 10 years, perhaps nothing has changed more than the relationship between teachers and the information being distributed in their classrooms. Historically, the role...
View ArticleMind Shift: Why It’s Important to Talk Math With Kids
Story by Annie Murphy Paul Do you speak math with your kids? Many of us feel completely comfortable talking about letters, words and sentences with our children—reading to them at night, helping them...
View ArticleNPR: What The U.S. Can Learn From Finland, Where School Starts At Age 7
Story by Claudio Sanchez Finland, a country the size of Minnesota, beats the U.S. in math, reading and science, even though Finnish children don't start school until age 7. Despite the late start, the...
View ArticleMind Shift: What Keeps Students Motivated to Learn?
Story by Katrina Schwartz Photo by Erin Scott Educators have lots of ideas about how to improve education, to better reach learners and to give students the skills they’ll need in college and beyond...
View ArticleMind Shift: Strategies to Reach Every Student, Regardless of Language Barrier
Story: Katrina Schwartz Photo: DFAT Photo Library Helping every student experience meaningful, deep learning is a constant challenge, in no small part because no two learners are alike. To reach...
View ArticleKQED News Fix: From Fields to Code, College Program Helps Farmworkers Make...
Story: Ana Tintocalis Photo and Video: Jeremy Raff Rogelio Mendoza mows the front lawn outside his family’s modest home in Salinas. It’s a warm weekday evening, and his wife, Norma, is cooking dinner...
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