Comments on: A long view of public education in Oakland

By: ProStudent

ProStudent — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:52:26 +0000

Great post Mr. Weinberg. Helps give perspective to all of those today who say “students today . . . [insert negative descriptor]” and “it’s not like the olden days when . . . [insert positive descriptor]“. It just is what it is and we still keep teaching them however they come to us.

By: Vivian Boyd

Vivian Boyd — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:15:45 +0000

Art History is offered as an AP course in several high schools in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District, but not at the middle school level. They are lucky to still have hands-on art courses. The issue of on-line courses is a difficult subject to tackle. The logic if it seems so simple, but actually making it happen in a sustained manner is a nightmare without someone monitoring the courses.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:48:33 +0000

Thanks, Steven!

By: Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:10:10 +0000

Yes, Caroline, and thank you for the link to your blog.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:51:38 +0000

Hi Steven — could I re-post your commentary on my examiner.com blog, with full credit and all that? Thanks!

http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner

By: Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:46:22 +0000

I don’t think art history is offered in middle school in many places. I took it in high school and so did my sons.

By: Katherine Bolman,PhD

Katherine Bolman,PhD — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:27:07 +0000

This is a wonderful short course in history. Delightful. Does Steve’s school have a history of art class?
I think we all need to think about putting great courses on line in a single place. There are great teachers who could, with the help of web designers began to put courses not lesson plans online for teachers everywhere as well as free to students of all ages. Teachers have had to recreate courses over and over again.

Any ideas out there?

I am working a course in art history which can be found at ahaafoundation.org

Would love to hear thoughts.
Dr. Katherine Bolman

By: Gordon Danning

Gordon Danning — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:09:09 +0000

Nextet: You wil be happy to know that, on several occasions last school year, the Oakland High cafeteria served hot cinnamon rolls for breakfast.

By: Nextset

Nextset — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:12:36 +0000

Steven W: Hang on to your belief, but watch what is happening to your paychecks. Los Angeles Unified is a perfect example of what is happening to the state and what will happen to the Bay Area as the influx moves North.

And the Dust Bowl refugees were English speaking. They were Americans. They worked all their lives. The invasion is not about any of that. For some reason the elites in Washington have decided to fire the American people nad replace them with a people more to their liking. I for one think the reasons for doing so are nefarious. And I am quite familiar with the damage done in the streets by this invasion, the dead bodies from the Mexican Gangs and Drug Cartels as well as the public health implications. You don’t see this and great for you, for the time being.

I have a few friends left who remain in Los Angeles. I was there Tuesday. The conditions of life there are deteriorating steadily especially for blacks. After 50 years at the same residence one elderly black friend is going to relocate to Denver of all places (following all of the adult children who fled LA previously.)

Most of my contemporaries are thinking of retiring outside of CA.

You cannot invite in the entire third world and have a viable state – or nation. You will lose your schools, your hospitals, social services, your security, most of what made this state great. OUSD is no different that LAUSD in the end. It just takes a few years for the blight to move up I-5.

By: Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:18:10 +0000

Nextset, your link claims that all the problems of California can be traced to non-white immigration. 75 years ago there were many who made identical agruments, substituting Dust Bowl refugees for immigrants. They were not correct, and I do not believe the vdare authors are correct either.