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	<title>The Education Report &#187; initiatives</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>A youth and family center opens at McClymonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The McClymonds Youth and Family Center, a project years in the making, opened today on the high school campus. I wrote a story about this happy occasion for West Oakland. Tribune photographer D. Ross Cameron took the below photos of the renovated space (the main area above and the dance studio below), which students helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland gets serious about school food</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by D. Ross Cameron/Staff For the first time in 15 years, the federal government has rewritten the rules for what must &#8212; and can&#8217;t &#8212; be served in its public school lunchrooms. Meanwhile, some OUSD staff, parents and local organizations are formulating some plans of their own, which they presented at the last school [...]]]></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>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>Health centers and &#8220;full-service community schools&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/12/05/school-health-centers-and-full-service-community-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photos by Roy Manzanares, courtesy of Oakland Unified Oakland Superintendent Tony Smith&#8217;s vision of full-service community schools is taking shape on some campuses, thanks to a school-based health center initiative that has picked up steam (and millions of dollars in funding) since 2008. Oakland Unified&#8217;s 12th health center opened this week, at the 1,900-student Skyline [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<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>Plan for Oakland schools up for approval Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/16/plan-for-oakland-schools-up-for-approval-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/16/plan-for-oakland-schools-up-for-approval-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, the Oakland school board is scheduled to vote on the superintendent&#8217;s five-year strategic plan &#8212; the product of 14 task forces and, according to the document, some 350 task force and community meetings. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the board room at 1025 Second Ave. It&#8217;s supposed to run about two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland elementary school explores gender norms, teaches acceptance</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/05/23/oakland-elementary-school-explores-gender-norms-teaches-acceptance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/05/23/oakland-elementary-school-explores-gender-norms-teaches-acceptance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 02:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland is teaching kids this week that boys and girls don&#8217;t all fit into neat gender norms, and that they shouldn&#8217;t laugh at or tease someone if they do (or wear) something different or unusual. Two parent leaders whom I interviewed for a story about the issue said they knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic absenteeism in Oakland schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/05/18/chronic-absenteeism-in-oakland-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/05/18/chronic-absenteeism-in-oakland-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 00:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last school year, 14.3 percent of Oakland&#8217;s public schoolchildren were chronically absent, meaning they missed at least 18 days of school &#8212; excused or unexcused. As you can see from this map, created by (and posted with the permission of) the Oakland-based Urban Strategies Council, the most serious attendance problems are concentrated in West Oakland. [...]]]></description>
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