Top Story - Education
By Nancy Mullane on Thursday, Mar 4, 3:33pm
This week, we've been sharing radical ideas from visionaries who are thinking outside the traditional campuses to consider more sustainable -- and possibly, more effective -- models for colleges and universities.
Today, we speak with someone who is both an insider and an agent of change. ...
Reality Check
By Nancy Mullane on Monday, Mar 8, 12:44pm
A new computer system, designed to track California's 6 million students individually is so defective, the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O'Connell, has all but shut down the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System for two months while they try to overhaul it....
By Chris Hoff on Friday, Mar 5, 2:27pm
Before the masses of high school and college students arrived at Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland Thursday, a much more varied crowd was gathering there for the March 4 Day of Action to Defend Education: 20-year-olds to 70-year-olds, elementary school teachers, political activists, concerned...
By Zoe Corneli on Thursday, Mar 4, 4:01pm
As part of the March 4 "Day of Action" to protest budget cuts to education, demonstrators are converging on Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. It's one of many sites across the Bay Area and the nation where students, teachers and their supporters are gathering today. Tune in to Crosscurrents at 5 p.m...
By Ben Trefny on Thursday, Mar 4, 2:15pm
On Thursday, February 25th, San Francisco's local and state elected leaders came together with education experts and school officials before an audience of 1,000 people to discuss how to bridge the San Francisco Unified School District's projected budget gap of $113 million. Moderated by Michael...
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