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		<title>KQED holds town hall in Oakland Tuesday about the dropout crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2012/03/12/kqed-holds-town-hall-in-oakland-tuesday-about-the-dropout-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Watch it live here from 5:40 &#8211; 8 p.m. More than one in every three Oakland teenagers drop out of high school &#8212; a rate twice the state average, according to the most recent data from the California Department of Education from the class of 2009-10. What&#8217;s more, Oakland&#8217;s black and Latino students quit school [...]]]></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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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>An Oakland mom&#8217;s take on the dropout rate and Tech&#8217;s Paideia program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kim Shipp, an OUSD parent, responds to a blog discussion on Oakland&#8217;s dropout rate and access to Oakland Tech&#8217;s Paideia program. In response to Oakland’s dropout rate and the increasing popularity of the Paideia program at Oakland Tech, topics recently posted on this blog, I decided to give my thoughts about both issues from a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>119</slash:comments>
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		<title>One district, different worlds</title>
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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>OUSD&#8217;s latest dropout estimate is higher than ever</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/07/oaklands-latest-dropout-estimate-is-higher-than-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/12/07/oaklands-latest-dropout-estimate-is-higher-than-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new state report estimated that 40 percent of Oakland public high school students dropped out, or would drop out, of high school based on data from the 2008-09 school year. (See the 4-year adjusted rate in the second-to-last column. Hint: You might have to scroll to the right.) Forty percent! And that figure isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oprah, Aspire and Waiting for Superman</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/20/oprah-aspire-and-waiting-for-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 4 p.m. (Pacific Time) today, James Willcox, CEO of the Oakland-based Aspire Public Schools, appears on the Oprah Winfrey Show along with Bill Gates and Director Davis Guggenheim to promote the much-hyped &#8220;Waiting for Superman&#8221; documentary by Guggenheim, who directed &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth.&#8221; Oprah is giving $1 million awards to six organizations, including Aspire, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>64</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reducing the dropout rate: the economic argument</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/08/reducing-the-dropout-rate-the-economic-argument/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The D.C.-based advocacy group Alliance for Excellent Education has come out with a new report that estimates the San Francisco-Oakland metro area would gain $8 million in tax revenues and generate 350 jobs by cutting its high school dropout rate in half. You can read the Bay Area report, which estimates additional earnings (and spending [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>New graduation rates, huge disparities</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/06/02/new-graduation-rates-huge-disparities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/06/02/new-graduation-rates-huge-disparities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 71 percent of California&#8217;s high school students graduated &#8220;on time&#8221; in 2008, after four years &#8211; 3.7 percentage points below the national average, according to a set of sobering numbers brought to you by the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s National Center for Education Statistics. (Page 5) If you break the California numbers down by ethnicity, the disparities leap off [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Edu-wonk alert! New Web site on high school graduation and higher education in California</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/12/03/edu-wonk-alert-new-web-site-on-high-school-and-higher-education-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/12/03/edu-wonk-alert-new-web-site-on-high-school-and-higher-education-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by Anda Chu/Staff A new Web site that went live today has no shortage of stats and pretty charts about California youth and higher education: high school graduation trends, completion of a-g requirements in high school, by gender; college enrollment trends; community college completion rates for degree-seekers, etc. Measuring Success, Making Progress &#8212; as the site [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Know a school dropout who wants back in?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/11/09/know-a-school-dropout-who-wants-back-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city and school district are holding another free event for dropouts and their families this Saturday, Nov. 14. It goes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can find a flier for the event here. Pre-register here or call (510) 238-7906.]]></description>
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