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	<title>The Education Report &#187; English learners</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are Oakland International,&#8221; a graphic novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students at Oakland International High School have come to California from all around the world &#8212; most of them, in the last few years. Through a project led by art teacher Thi Bui, the teenagers have told their stories in graphic novel form. I wrote about this project in the fall of 2010; now the collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a long and eventful board meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s &#8212; or should I say, last night&#8217;s &#8212;  5 p.m. Oakland school board meeting went till midnight. I observed so much from my ergonomically incorrect wooden seat: The NAACP&#8216;s Oakland branch showed up in force to register their concerns about complaints they&#8217;d heard from students and alumni about problem teachers, institutional racism and African [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oakland school&#8217;s transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago this morning, I interviewed parents who were on strike and picketing outside of Lazear Elementary, a school located right off the 29th Avenue/Fruitvale exit of Interstate 880. They said they were fed up with some teachers &#8212; one, especially &#8212; and with their principal&#8217;s response to their concerns. I returned to Lazear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New language immersion school, a year later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall I visited Oakland&#8217;s Melrose Leadership Academy, which had just begun a new Spanish-English immersion program, starting with a kindergarten class of about 35 students. When the teacher said &#8220;stand up&#8221; in Spanish (90 percent of kindergarten instruction is in Spanish), at least a third of the children &#8212; most of the native English-speakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you all read 100 million words, you can shave your principal&#8217;s head</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder how far into the summer Think College Now Principal David Silver will keep his elementary school&#8217;s initials carved into the back of his head. In any case, his students (and, by extension, he) won this year&#8217;s reading bet.]]></description>
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		<title>More shocking news for adult ed in Oakland</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/06/07/more-shocking-news-for-adult-ed-in-oakland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adult education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week, the Oakland school district will consider a proposal to salvage what it can of its preschool programs for low-income families &#8211; at the expense of adult immigrants, refugees, high school dropouts and others looking to better their lives through education. Adult education teachers and workers were told today to attend an important meeting at McClymonds. I&#8217;m told they sat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland middle school to get a plug on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/12/16/oakland-middle-school-to-get-a-plug-on-the-today-show-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/12/16/oakland-middle-school-to-get-a-plug-on-the-today-show-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urban Promise Academy, a small middle school in East Oakland&#8217;s Fruitvale neighborhood, will be one of three schools in the nation to be featured tomorrow morning on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show for a segment on innovative schools in low-income communities. Because the show will be filming live from UPA for its East Coast broadcast, a group of teachers, parents and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland&#8217;s Lincoln Elementary nominated for National Blue Ribbon</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/12/10/oaklands-lincoln-elementary-nominated-for-national-blue-ribbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribune file photo by D. Ross Cameron Lincoln Elementary School in Oakland&#8217;s Chinatown has just been nominated for the prestigious National Blue Ribbon Award, which honors schools for high academic achievement. Lincoln was one of 35 public and private schools statewide to be nominated for the 2010 award by the California Department of Education, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Oakland science teacher&#8217;s message to Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/11/25/a-oakland-science-teachers-message-to-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/11/25/a-oakland-science-teachers-message-to-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Noonan, a science teacher at Oakland High School, puts national education politics into a local context. I heard about President Obama’s Educate to Innovate science initiative yesterday while driving 13 tired students back from a four-day intensive workshop in geospatial technology in Sacramento. My students gave up four days of their Thanksgiving vacation, slept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dismantling of California&#8217;s adult ed system</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/10/23/the-dismantling-of-californias-adult-ed-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/10/23/the-dismantling-of-californias-adult-ed-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dropouts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Dan Honda/Contra Costa Times If you look around, you&#8217;ll see adult education coming apart, piece by piece. That was the message teachers, students and administrators gave state politicians this morning at a forum in Richmond. Not only were adult ed programs cut by 22 percent this year, but this spring, the state Legislature gave school districts the [...]]]></description>
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