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	<title>The Education Report &#187; achievement gap</title>
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		<title>A Promise Neighborhood in Hayward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, in its first round of five-year Promise Neighborhoods grants, the U.S. Department of Education handed out just five awards. One of the recipients was a project focused on the Jackson Triangle neighborhood in Hayward, down the hill from Cal State East Bay. Last year, I wrote about Hayward&#8217;s $500,000 Promise Neighborhoods planning grant. Out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Oakland: A charter school for black boys, charter conversions and other proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oakland school board holds a special meeting Nov. 21 to hear eight pending charter petitions &#8212; three district schools that would secede from OUSD and run independently; one new school and four existing charters that are up for renewal (KIPP Bridge, Civicorps, ARISE High School and Aspire&#8217;s Lionel Wilson College Prep). NOTE: This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of NCLB?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonk alert! Here is a look at the (major) changes a bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, otherwise known as No Child Left Behind. The law was up for renewal in 2007, but the process has moved so slowly that President Barack Obama announced last month his administration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Oakland track student suspensions by teacher?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/05/a-proposal-to-track-student-discipline-by-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[safety and discipline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report calls for school districts to publish student disciplinary statistics by school, race and gender, to help teachers learn how to keep order in their classrooms without kicking kids out, and to create a disciplinary system that doesn&#8217;t result in out-of-school suspensions of large numbers of students &#8212; particularly black students. The policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oakland classroom, on national TV</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/03/an-oakland-classroom-on-national-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=13407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[photo of Kristen Casaretto by Hasain Rasheed Photography Did anyone watch Education Nation on NBC last week? It highlighted the work of three teachers, including Teach for America alum Kristen Casaretto, who teaches fourth grade at Think College Now in East Oakland. Talk about courage &#8212; the segment includes a live video feed from Casaretto&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New dropout formula, same problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s new dropout and graduate estimates are out for the Class of 2010. They are supposed to be more accurate than ever before, as this is the fourth year the state education department has used unique student IDs to track students&#8217; progress through the system. With four years of data, it didn&#8217;t have to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How they spent their summers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Hernandez, 13; Blythe Rinehart-Pimentel, 11, and Anthony Alexandre, 13 were three of the kids that photographer Laura Oda and I followed this summer for our stories about the importance of learning during the break. You can read the latest piece and watch the videos here.]]></description>
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		<title>Former Oakland teacher a lead organizer for Save Our Schools March</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/27/former-oakland-teacher-a-lead-organizer-for-save-our-schools-march/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/27/former-oakland-teacher-a-lead-organizer-for-save-our-schools-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Cody, an Education Week blogger and former math and science teacher and coach in OUSD, is one of the organizers of Saturday&#8217;s Save Our Schools March in Washington, D.C. March participants don&#8217;t like the direction in which education reform is headed; among other demands, they are calling for an end to the practice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland&#8217;s &#8220;Santa Claus of computer land&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/07/oaklands-santa-claus-of-computer-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/07/oaklands-santa-claus-of-computer-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought you might enjoy today&#8217;s column by Dave Newhouse about Bruce Buckelew. The Piedmont resident and IBM retiree founded Oakland Technology Exchange West, a nonprofit based in West Oakland that distributes free, refurbished computers to schools and homes and training to children and their parents. According to the OTX West website, the organization has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigators allege systemic, decade-long cheating in Atlanta schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/06/investigators-allege-systemic-decade-long-cheating-in-atlanta-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/07/06/investigators-allege-systemic-decade-long-cheating-in-atlanta-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been following the cheating scandal in Atlanta? Beverly Hall, the superintendent implicated in the recent state investigation, was named national superintendent of the year in 2009 by the American Association of School Administrators &#8212; in part, for her students&#8217; rising test scores. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports today, the Georgia governor&#8217;s special investigators [...]]]></description>
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