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	<title>The Education Report &#187; the arts</title>
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	<description>Katy Murphy&#039;s blog on Oakland schools</description>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group I visited Peralta Elementary School in North Oakland this week to see how they are using the arts to teach children about the environment. A story about it ran in Saturday&#8217;s paper. Below, you&#8217;ll find the &#8220;Miraculous Fungi&#8221; animation last year&#8217;s fourth-graders produced with their teachers to explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland Fine Arts Summer School: Your (parcel) tax dollars at work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So often these days, I find myself writing about the end of things. But city&#8217;s fine arts summer school &#8212; free for any child who lives in Oakland &#8212; has weathered the downturn and years of budget cuts. Why? Measure G, a $195 school parcel tax that voters renewed (and made permanent) in February 2008, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop class: Are old school skills back on the cutting edge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shop classes (and especially the term &#8220;shop class&#8221;) have fallen out of fashion in the last couple of decades. But Mark Martin, an engineer who started iDesign-M, thinks that basic manufacturing skills are still relevant in today&#8217;s marketplace. He says they are important for careers in design and engineering, as well as (obviously) the well-paying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next week at the Grand Lake: An Acquired Taste Film Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 21:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Acquired Taste Film festival &#8212; noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 24 at Oakland&#8217;s Grand Lake Theater &#8212; will showcase an eclectic group of student-produced films: noir, horror, romantic comedy, comedic spoofs, surrealist films and documentaries. You can check out the trailers for yourself, on the festival&#8217;s website. Jake Mulliken&#8217;s film students at Bayhill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A high-tech invite from Skyline</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/03/18/a-high-tech-invite-from-skyline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skyline High School&#8217;s performing artists are putting on The Wiz this month, and they want you to come see it. Here is your invitation: Here is the blurb from the school about the production, dates, times, etc: Skyline High School, Oakland&#8217;s premiere performing arts school is presenting an adaptation of the Tony award winning musical, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tragic start to the new year</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/01/06/a-tragic-start-to-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Jones was all set to graduate from East Oakland School of the Arts and study music at Cal State East Bay. He had his graduation day marked on his cell phone calendar &#8212; along with a note about how happy he would be, at that moment. But, as you might have heard, the talented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland to offer new media program</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/05/28/oakland-to-offer-a-new-new-media-program-with-kdol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 22:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, Oakland students will have the chance to produce news magazine-style video journalism and documentaries about life and issues in Oakland in a new R.O.P. class supported by KDOL, UC Berkeley&#8217;s Haas School of Business, and local filmmakers. Jeff Keys, the fine arts chair and new media teacher at Head Royce, will be coming to OUSD to direct the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer school in OUSD: still here</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/04/14/summer-school-in-ousd-still-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At tonight&#8217;s Oakland school board meeting, a staffer handed me a colorful guide almost the size of a newspaper on summer resources for kids. Despite the cutbacks, the district is still offering: Algebra Academies for middle and high school students Oakland Fine Arts Summer School (at International Community School/Think College Now this year) Bridges Program, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearts for Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/02/08/hearts-for-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo courtesy of Bill Watson Payne Kids at Oakland&#8217;s Bret Harte Middle School are showing their love this month by raising money for victims of the earthquake in Haiti. So far, they have raised more than $700 for Oxfam, according to teachers at the school. Each heart represents a student&#8217;s contribution. At Oakland School for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students to perform modern version of Shakespeare tragedy, set in Oakland in 1989</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/01/12/students-to-perform-modern-version-of-shakespeare-tragedy-set-in-oakland-in-1989/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/01/12/students-to-perform-modern-version-of-shakespeare-tragedy-set-in-oakland-in-1989/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamlet, a well-known work of Shakespeare performed at high schools and colleges across the country (and even in a high-security prison, one of my favorite &#8220;This American Life&#8221; stories), comes to the Oakland Tech stage this week. Sort of. Naomi Iizuka&#8217;s &#8220;Hamlet: Blood in the Brain&#8221; is a modern, local re-telling of the popular tragedy. It&#8217;s set in [...]]]></description>
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