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Report follows the grass-roots organizers who brought small schools to Oakland


Tribune file photo of Acorn Woodland Elementary School by Alex Molloy

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University has spent six years studying a major initiative of the Oakland Community Organizations: to radically change public education in the city’s flatlands neighborhoods by creating small schools. Tonight at Castlemont’s East Oakland School of the Arts (EOSA), researchers discussed the findings. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Under: achievement gap, curriculum, families, initiatives, parents, safety and discipline, school reform, small schools, students, teachers, teens, the arts | 5 Comments »

Oh, the noise, noise, noise, noise!

Posted on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Under: athletics/physical education, high schools, safety and discipline, students | 9 Comments »

Some girls are mean (and violent). Anything new?

Posted on Monday, November 17th, 2008
Under: health, high schools, middle schools, safety and discipline, students, teens | 32 Comments »

Oakland’s new alternative school: a haven or a dumping ground?

Posted on Monday, June 16th, 2008
Under: safety and discipline, school reform, small schools | 13 Comments »

Berkeley school deals with charges of racism

Posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Under: safety and discipline, students, teachers | 15 Comments »

Is bullying inevitable?

Posted on Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Under: Isabel Rodriguez-Vega, high schools, safety and discipline | 38 Comments »

Rockridge neighborhood patrol

Posted on Friday, May 9th, 2008
Under: crime, middle schools, safety and discipline | 71 Comments »

Handcuffs can get smaller than you’d think

Posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Under: safety and discipline | 35 Comments »

The safety factor

Posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Under: safety and discipline | 12 Comments »

Are schools doing enough to stop bullying?

Posted on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Under: safety and discipline | 17 Comments »