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	<title>The Education Report &#187; literacy</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
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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>Notes from a long and eventful board meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/06/23/notes-from-a-long-and-eventful-board-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>45</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oakland makes national news &#8211; in a good way</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/04/15/oakland-makes-national-news-in-a-good-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/04/15/oakland-makes-national-news-in-a-good-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy]]></category>
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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>Berkeley-based National Writing Project in jeopardy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Berkeley-based National Writing Project, a 37-year-old program to help teachers of all grade levels and disciplines teach writing, received some tough news this week. It lost all of its federal funding for the upcoming school year in a temporary spending bill President Barack Obama signed into law Wednesday in an effort to avoid a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The best of Oakland: Oratorical Fest</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/03/01/the-best-of-oakland-oratorical-fest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/03/01/the-best-of-oakland-oratorical-fest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kristen Caven, an OUSD parent, volunteer, and author of Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career, tells us about a festival that&#8217;s become an institution in Oakland. The final competition is March 18 and 19. Do you want to see the best of Oakland? Come to any round of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratorical Fest, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sweat equity in Oakland</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/02/02/sweat-equity-in-oakland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, as California schools face yet another round of budget reductions, some are giving this fundraising formula a try: Oakland pride + a fitness challenge + a way to help a school in need. Dagmar Serota was in a meeting at the Sankofa Academy library when she noticed the bare shelves. The few books [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>If you all read 100 million words, you can shave your principal&#8217;s head</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/06/18/if-you-read-100-million-words-you-can-shave-your-principals-head/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/06/18/if-you-read-100-million-words-you-can-shave-your-principals-head/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English learners]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>High school debate, alive and well in Oakland</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/05/21/high-school-debate-alive-and-well-in-oakland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/05/21/high-school-debate-alive-and-well-in-oakland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 18:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[high schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EXCEL&#8217;s Tanesha Walker (back row, middle), and Top Speaker Rashid Campbell (back row, left) with the Skyline High School team. Campbell and Walker won the championship trophy at last weekend&#8217;s debate championships. Christopher Scheer, a teacher and debate coach at Skyline High School, sent me a recap of the Bay Area Urban Debate League championships [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>A half-baked test prep question?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/04/13/a-half-baked-test-prep-question/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/04/13/a-half-baked-test-prep-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, a mom sent me a reading test-prep stumper involving casseroles. I was SURE I&#8217;d be able to nail it. I grew up in the Midwest in the 1980s and early 90s, so I&#8217;m no stranger to cream of mushroom soup or Tater Tots. If anyone would know the answer, I thought, it&#8217;s me. She writes: My daughter brought home a &#8220;Practice and Mastery&#8221; book to prep [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>An Oakland principal goes to new lengths to promote reading</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/04/05/an-oakland-principal-goes-to-new-lengths-to-promote-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/04/05/an-oakland-principal-goes-to-new-lengths-to-promote-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, Think College Now Principal David Silver has subjected his staff to the dunk tank, danced to Snoop Dogg on the roof and let students run the school for a day as a reward for reading for at least 100 million minutes by June. The students fell short of their goal last year, but this time the prize might be too tempting [...]]]></description>
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