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	<title>The Education Report &#187; Algebra/Math</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Common state standards in math and English &#8212; a step forward?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, all but five states (Alaska, Texas, Minnesota, Nebraska and Virginia) have adopted what&#8217;s known as Common Core State Standards for math and English, a common agreement of what students in the United States should know and be able to do in those subjects. A Learning Matters blog post features differing views of what this major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oakland classroom, on national TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<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>Oakland makes national news &#8211; in a good way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When friends and relatives from other parts of the country see Oakland in the news, it&#8217;s almost always because something tragic or bizarre has happened here. I&#8217;m sure many of you can relate. Now I hate to speak too soon &#8212; I wasn&#8217;t near a TV at 3:20 this afternoon &#8212; but I believe BET [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Close the achievement gap and graduate college. Then what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zeus Yiamouyiannis is an Oakland-based learning consultant and former professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Carroll College. He gives us his take on education reform in general and &#8220;Waiting for Superman&#8221; in particular &#8212; and the film-maker&#8217;s assertion that 120 million new high-paying jobs await us in 2020. American Education has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let me tell you something about decimals&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/17/let-me-tell-you-something-about-decimals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the elementary school principals I&#8217;ve talked to in the last week &#8212; John Melvin at Lincoln in Chinatown and Monica Thomas at Greenleaf (formerly Whittier) in East Oakland &#8212; told me about a skill their staff are helping students build, one that can&#8217;t be measured on a bubble test: oral presentation. Here&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At two-way immersion school, math class is in Spanish</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have noticed, when glancing through Oakland schools&#8217; latest test scores, that one made a 106-point jump on the API. That was Manzanita SEED, a two-way language immersion elementary school that opened in 2005 on the old Manzanita campus (East 27th Street between 23rd Avenue and Fruitvale Avenue). Two years ago, its API was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>College prep for all: Chicago&#8217;s hard lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/08/college-prep-for-all-chicagos-hard-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next fall, Oakland&#8217;s ninth-graders will automatically enroll in a course sequence that closely matches state university entrance requirements. The Oakland school board passed this policy, known as &#8220;A to G For All,&#8221; in 2009, a change that student leaders and local advocacy groups such as Ed Trust-West pushed for &#8212; and one embraced by other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious math</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I feel like I&#8217;ve come to know you &#8212; your political leanings and life experiences, your writing style, sense of humor and average snark level. But what about your math skills? For example: Can you (or any high school student you know) do this? Show that there are only finitely many triples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer school in OUSD: still here</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/04/14/summer-school-in-ousd-still-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At tonight&#8217;s Oakland school board meeting, a staffer handed me a colorful guide almost the size of a newspaper on summer resources for kids. Despite the cutbacks, the district is still offering: Algebra Academies for middle and high school students Oakland Fine Arts Summer School (at International Community School/Think College Now this year) Bridges Program, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids: Want a crash course in astrophysics? Juggling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo courtesy of Shuai Chen, co-founder of Splash If you know a middle or high school student who has a free day this weekend and might be interested in, say, neuroscience, dancing, artificial intelligence, juggling, or painting, keep reading! More than 100 Stanford University students are playing teacher for the weekend in a marathon learning [...]]]></description>
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