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Oakland Voices: Oakland Teacher Alison Ball Breathes Life into Math & Science
February 22, 2013 By Debora Gordon After early teaching stints in far flung locales from Ecuador and China to New York and Sunnyvale, 4th year middle school teacher Alison Ball, 29, came to Urban...
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Oakland Local: Oakulture: Respect Our City helps bring peace to First...
March 5, 2013 By Eric K. Arnold The red outline of a neon cross from the nearby Korean Community Christian Church church emanated above 1-O.A.K.’s head like an electric halo, as the Oakland singer...
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Oakland Local: Join us March 20 for release of study on teaching practices in...
March 14, 2013 By Marc Tafolla As a community, we know that no other in-school factor affects students as much as effective teaching. Therefore, Oakland’s parents, teachers and community leaders have...
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Oakland Local: East Bay College Fund matches mentors with students for...
April 10, 2013 By Jon Leckie By the end of his junior year, Jameil Butler was a promising high school student. He was sociable, popular and a rising star on championship teams in basketball and...
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Oakland Local: GO Public Schools: reading, teaching and OUSD's progress...
April 25,2013 By Caitlin Healey Which Oakland schools are producing promising results and raising achievement for all students? Who are the people teaching in our schools and what are they like? How...
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Oakland Local: A Better Chance Celebrates 50 Years of Increasing High-Quality...
May 2, 2013 By Corey Olds Approximately 75 directors of admission and diversity from Bay Area independent schools gathered for breakfast at the UC-Berkeley, Clark Kerr Campus Wednesday to celebrate the...
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Oakland Local: From prison to Phi Theta Kappa: How one Oakland youth is...
June 6, 2013 By Jon Leckie When Jonathan Roach graduated from high school, he was thirsty for higher education, but as an inmate in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall, the opportunity didn’t exist. Yet...
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