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	<title>The Education Report &#187; NCLB</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>California weighs the hefty cost of NCLB relief</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/11/09/california-weighs-the-hefty-cost-of-nclb-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, frustrated by the glacial pace of Congress in rewriting the decade-old No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education decided to go around it. The administration announced that until the law was revamped, it would grant states temporary relief from some of the act&#8217;s key provisions &#8212; such as the requirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of NCLB?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonk alert! Here is a look at the (major) changes a bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, otherwise known as No Child Left Behind. The law was up for renewal in 2007, but the process has moved so slowly that President Barack Obama announced last month his administration [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
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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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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>A celebratory dunk</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/10/30/a-celebratory-dunk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/10/30/a-celebratory-dunk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[high schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCLB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo of Benjamin Schmookler courtesy of Howard Ruffner Benjamin Schmookler, principal of Media Academy &#8211; a small school on East Oakland&#8217;s Fremont Federation campus &#8212; agreed to be dunked today during a celebration of the school&#8217;s improved test scores. Media Academy&#8217;s state test scores went up by 79 points to 600 (on a scale of 200 to 1,000), the biggest gain seen in all of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Test score gains: more knowledge or better prep?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/08/18/test-score-gains-greater-knowledge-or-better-prep/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/08/18/test-score-gains-greater-knowledge-or-better-prep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary schools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NCLB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between 2008 and 2009, 80 percent of Oakland&#8217;s elementary schools improved their scores in math AND in English language arts, according to a school district analysis. (A list of the most-improved schools is posted below.) Oakland&#8217;s not alone in its upward trend. On the page 4 and 7 of this news release, you&#8217;ll see increases in English and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Plan? Just fire the teachers and start over</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/13/the-plan-just-fire-the-teachers-and-start-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/05/13/the-plan-just-fire-the-teachers-and-start-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 17:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might have read by now, President Obama and his secretary of education, Arne Duncan, plan to encourage school administrators to close and re-open 5,000 of the nation&#8217;s worst schools &#8212; and hire a new slate of teachers and principals, or convert them into independently run charter schools  &#8212; with $5 billion in education [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Obama calls for merit pay and an end to &#8220;the same stale debates&#8221; in education policy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/10/obama-calls-for-merit-pay-and-the-end-to-same-stale-debates-in-education-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/10/obama-calls-for-merit-pay-and-the-end-to-same-stale-debates-in-education-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama probably didn&#8217;t make too many teacher union friends this morning after a speech about education at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Obama called for the support of successful charter schools, a new academic calendar that would add more instruction time, and better assessments of student achievement &#8212; and of teacher performance. Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland teachers get praise &#8212; and moola</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/06/oakland-teachers-get-praise-and-moola/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/06/oakland-teachers-get-praise-and-moola/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finances]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers at Monarch Academy and at Lighthouse Community Charter School&#8216;s secondary program (grades 7-12), will get more than a pat on the back for the academic strides that their students made last year. They will share $67,000 and $29,000, respectively, thanks to an award from the Effective Practice Incentive Community (rolls off the tongue, doesn&#8217;t it?), a new initiative of New Leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>News flash: CA schools are unequal</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/02/24/news-flash-ca-schools-are-unequal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/02/24/news-flash-ca-schools-are-unequal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dropouts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribune file photo by Ray Chavez California schools don&#8217;t have enough funding and they provide &#8220;inadequate and unequal learning conditions and opportunities,&#8221; according to the latest annual report by UCLA&#8217;s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access. The report is more of an advocacy piece than a research analysis, but it does raise (and answer, in no uncertain terms) important questions [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>More turmoil in the Skyline principal&#8217;s office</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/02/17/more-turmoil-in-the-skyline-principals-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/02/17/more-turmoil-in-the-skyline-principals-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[high schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investigations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCLB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OUSD central office]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The principalship at Oakland&#8217;s largest high school is notorious for its political challenges. It&#8217;s no place for beginners. But from what I&#8217;ve heard, Skyline High School&#8216;s various factions have embraced Al Sye, a veteran administrator &#8212; and the latest in a string of people to inhabit the principal&#8217;s office. Recently, however, Sye became the subject [...]]]></description>
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