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	<title>The Education Report &#187; curriculum</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>How do you teach history, as it&#8217;s happening?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/16/how-to-teach-history-while-its-happening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo from Brian Sims&#8217; site on flickr.com/creativecommons Before the Nov. 2 general strike, some Oakland teachers said they wished they had more time to prepare lessons about the Occupy movement. Now that two weeks have passed, I&#8217;m curious to hear how teachers have approached the subject in class. It must be challenging to teach current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to teach about Sept. 11</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/08/26/how-to-teach-about-sept-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleagues and I are working on a story about how Bay Area teachers plan to cover the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. So tell us: What aspects of the event and its ongoing aftermath will &#8212; or should &#8212; social studies teachers address in their classrooms? Given the religious and ethnic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop class: Are old school skills back on the cutting edge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shop classes (and especially the term &#8220;shop class&#8221;) have fallen out of fashion in the last couple of decades. But Mark Martin, an engineer who started iDesign-M, thinks that basic manufacturing skills are still relevant in today&#8217;s marketplace. He says they are important for careers in design and engineering, as well as (obviously) the well-paying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>GO Public Schools&#8217; wish list for 2011</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/30/go-public-schools-wish-list-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Oakland Public Schools, a local advocacy group that started with funding from the Rogers Family Foundation, wants to see some new blood on the Oakland teachers union&#8217;s executive board and representative council next year. It wants district leaders to emphasize high quality instruction as well as service hubs, and a &#8220;new and better response&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>One district, different worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/08/one-district-different-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The timing was pure coincidence: a story about the popularity of Oakland Technical High School and its humanities program and a report that 40 percent of Oakland&#8217;s public high school students drop out. The juxtaposition illustrates the wide range of experiences and opportunities in the city&#8217;s public schools. At Tech, for instance, the estimated dropout [...]]]></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>Released: National teaching content standards</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/03/10/released-national-teaching-content-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard about a movement to create more uniformity in what public school kids in the United States are taught &#8212; and on what they are tested. A common criticism of No Child Left Behind is that the content and the difficulty of standardized tests vary greatly from state to state. So far, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free digital textbooks are up: Any takers?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/08/12/free-digital-textbooks-are-up-any-takers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/08/12/free-digital-textbooks-are-up-any-takers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember Arnold&#8217;s digital textbook initiative that we discussed in June? Well, a review of 16 of these newfangled `books&#8217; came out yesterday, and the materials &#8211; all free &#8212; are posted online. It looks like they&#8217;re all for high school math and science: geometry, algebra II, trigonometry, calculus, physics, chemistry, biology/life science and earth science. Ten of the textbooks reviewed covered at least 90 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New principals and a $1.8m math contract</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/08/10/new-principals-a-18m-math-contract/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/08/10/new-principals-a-18m-math-contract/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oakland school board is back in business. It holds a special meeting at 5 p.m. this evening with the district&#8217;s new superintendent to talk strategic priorities, and it met on Saturday as well. A couple of things on the agenda for Wednesday&#8217;s meeting, the first regular session since June: A new personnel report, in which I learned: Matthew Duffy, the Elmhurst Community Prep principal I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaked: Draft of national standards for schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/07/22/leaked-draft-of-national-standards-for-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/07/22/leaked-draft-of-national-standards-for-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Education wonk alert! A draft document of common core state standards, the latest effort to create more consistency in curriculum between the 50 states, is circulating in cyberspace. The Core Knowledge camp &#8212; those who promote the teaching of shared, specific content and &#8220;a sequential building of knowledge&#8221; &#8212; were quick to weigh in on the document today, in a [...]]]></description>
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