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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Not your typical high school science lab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lara Trale, who teaches the sophomore English classes at Oakland High School&#8217;s Environmental Science Academy, wrote this piece about an ongoing class project &#8212; with help from some of her students. photo courtesy of Katie Noonan, co-director of Oakland High School&#8217;s Environmental Science Academy Stop by Lake Merritt most Tuesdays, and you’ll see dozens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Night: Rock-sorting, butter-making, and slime production</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in West Oakland is taking its science and math lessons up a notch this year &#8212; and to do it, Principal Roma Groves told me, the faculty is enlisting parents&#8217; help. This evening, the school held its first Family Science Night to let parents know about the school&#8217;s new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With free admission, more Oakland students taking field trips to Chabot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[School board news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Build it, and they will come &#8212; if you offer free admission. As part of its business deal last year with the Oakland school district, to which it still owed $8 million for a construction loan, the Chabot Space &#38; Science Center agreed to offer free field trips to Oakland&#8217;s public schools. (Before, it had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academic might in OUSD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As she sent me the news of her students&#8217; success in a day-long ocean science contest, Oakland High School teacher Katie Noonan invoked President Obama, who said in his recent State of the Union address: “We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sally Ride talks K-12 science education at Cal</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/02/08/sally-ride-talks-k-12-science-education-at-cal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/02/08/sally-ride-talks-k-12-science-education-at-cal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I had the chance to see Sally Ride in person and hear her thoughts on the nation&#8217;s ailing science education programs. Granted, I&#8217;d heard most of it before &#8212; but not from an American icon. The quote projected behind her, from Carl Sagan, reads: &#8220;It&#8217;s suicidal to create a society that depends on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close the achievement gap and graduate college. Then what?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/10/07/close-the-achievement-gap-graduate-college-then-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Algebra/Math]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zeus Yiamouyiannis is an Oakland-based learning consultant and former professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Carroll College. He gives us his take on education reform in general and &#8220;Waiting for Superman&#8221; in particular &#8212; and the film-maker&#8217;s assertion that 120 million new high-paying jobs await us in 2020. American Education has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OUSD makes deal with Chabot Space Center</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/09/22/ousd-works-out-deal-with-chabot-space-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, three years before the Oakland school district realized it was millions of dollars in debt and might not be able to make payroll, the school board decided to loan $10 million to the Chabot Space and Science Center. The center&#8217;s 86,000-foot facility, with its interactive exhibits and 100-year-old telescopes, opened in 2000 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science in OUSD: No longer optional</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/06/04/science-in-ousd-no-longer-optional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, something the school district administration and teachers union can agree on! Last week, the Oakland school board unanimously approved a proposal to require 60 minutes of science instruction each week in kindergarten through third grade, and 90 minutes in fourth and fifth grade, beginning in the fall of 2011. (If you follow me on Twitter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science labs, race and equity at Berkeley High</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/02/science-labs-race-and-equity-at-berkeley-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/02/science-labs-race-and-equity-at-berkeley-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our editorial board weighed in today on the controversy at Berkeley High, where parcel tax money that pays for after-school, college-prep science labs might instead fund extra teachers to work with struggling students. At the core of the issue is the stubborn achievement gap between the school&#8217;s white students and its black and Latino students. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The view from a classroom in &#8220;the hall&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/12/04/the-view-from-a-classroom-in-the-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our feature on Lauren Bishop, an Oakland mother and scientist who teaches at the Alameda County Court School, ran in today&#8217;s paper. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what it&#8217;s like to teach in the max security unit of a juvenile detention facility (well, if you&#8217;re a &#8220;bulldog&#8221; and the kids love you), you can find out [...]]]></description>
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