http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:18:53 -0700 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:42:43 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Some-comments-on-a-blast-at-the-SFUSD-enrollment-lottery?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner SFGate blogger Anna Marie Hibble, who writes the On the Block real estate blog, posted the other day that San Francisco's "public school system has a direct and unfavorable effect on real estate, as parents with school age children often ... enrollment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:42:43 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Some-comments-on-a-blast-at-the-SFUSD-enrollment-lottery?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Chocolate-milk-If-its-served-it-should-contain-as-little-bad-stuff-as-possible?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner As I posted the other day, children's health advocates and nutritionists are divided over whether chocolate milk should be offered in school cafeterias at all. But one thing they're united on is the belief that sugar is preferable to ... school food Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:22:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Chocolate-milk-If-its-served-it-should-contain-as-little-bad-stuff-as-possible?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-SEED-School-takes-offense?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner The SEED School complained to my editor about my comments on their high expulsion rate. In response, I left a message with their PR guy offering to post their response as an item, not just in the comments. I also removed my most forceful sentence,... Education reform Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:11:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-SEED-School-takes-offense?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Teachertrashers-cant-take-away-the-true-rewards--but-they-are-trying-hard?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner I posted on Facebook an apt, if disheartening, quote from Oakland activist/blogger Sharon Higgins, whose Perimeter Primate blog and website following billionaire Eli "Rhymes with Toad" Broad's education "philanthropy" ... Education reform Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:10:03 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Teachertrashers-cant-take-away-the-true-rewards--but-they-are-trying-hard?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d19-SFUSD-boarding-school-proposal-emulating-a-phony-success-story?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner The Examiner, newspaper version, informs us that SFUSD is considering an application from the Ujaama Community Foundation to open Mt. Kilimanjaro Charter Boarding School, .  And Board of Education Commissioner Rachel Norton adds on her blog: ... charter schools Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:56:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d19-SFUSD-boarding-school-proposal-emulating-a-phony-success-story?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Battle-lines-drawn-over-school-cafeteria-chocolate-milk?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner Parents, kids and advocates are staking out sides in the great chocolate milk debate. The crux of the controversy is whether kids who refuse unflavored milk will drink chocolate – especially kids whose impoverished families may not be able t... school food Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:32:24 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d17-Battle-lines-drawn-over-school-cafeteria-chocolate-milk?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d11-US-Schools-101-President-Obamas-inaccurate-blasts-at-our-schools?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner I cried with joy when Barack Obama was elected president, and I'm still with him most of the way, but I'm flat-out dismayed at how he is handling education. Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is a non-educator businessma... Education reform President Obama Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:03:39 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d11-US-Schools-101-President-Obamas-inaccurate-blasts-at-our-schools?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Education-policy-101-Why-businessmen-and-billionaires-shouldnt-be-running-our-schools?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner The last few posts were aimed at young parents of incoming kindergartners -- a savvy and committed group, from what I've seen, who are just learning about the schools and probably haven't been following education policy controversies over ... Education reform Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:21:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Education-policy-101-Why-businessmen-and-billionaires-shouldnt-be-running-our-schools?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d9-The-last-myth-Things-were-better-in-the-good-old-days?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner Myth No. 10: The SFUSD assignment process was easier and more parent-friendly in the past. No way! Well, maybe that’s easy for me to say as someone who experienced a past version. But here’s some history. An early SFUSD d... enrollment Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:51:44 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d9-The-last-myth-Things-were-better-in-the-good-old-days?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Debunking-more-myths-starting-with-why-not-make-all-the-schools-good?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner Myth No. 7: The school district could fix all this by just making all the schools good! It’s a shame that that idea has to be classified as a myth, but unfortunately… well, the reality is that no high-poverty school district any... enrollment Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:34:48 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Debunking-more-myths-starting-with-why-not-make-all-the-schools-good?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Another-SFUSD-assignment-myth-Middleclass-families-are-out-in-the-cold?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner I'm switching to posting some -- maybe the rest -- of the myths individually. Myth No. 6: It’s impossible for middle-class parents to get the SFUSD school they want, because their demographics are an unfair strike against them. ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:26:58 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d9-Another-SFUSD-assignment-myth-Middleclass-families-are-out-in-the-cold?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d8-Myths-about-the-SFUSD-application-process---a-message-of-hope?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner I agree with Board of Education member Rachel Norton’s sheepish confession: I love the annual School Enrollment Fair. Whatever challenges different SFUSD schools face, what we see at that bustling event are proud members of every school comm... enrollment Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:10:11 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d8-Myths-about-the-SFUSD-application-process---a-message-of-hope?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Dont-miss-the-SFUSD-enrollment-fair-this-Saturday?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner The annual San Francisco Unified School District Enrollment Fair is this Saturday, Nov. 7,  9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.,  at the Concourse Exhibition Center at 620 7th St. Schools at all levels, K-12, participate (every one of them, by order of the... enrollment SFUSD Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:22:52 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Dont-miss-the-SFUSD-enrollment-fair-this-Saturday?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d29-San-Francisco-privatization-funder-laments-insufficient-standardized-testing?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner A note of distress in a press release from the New Schools Venture Fund: "Today, in many schools, teachers administer standardized tests only a few times each year."  Oh no! NSVF, a San Francisco-based funder and promo... School reform Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:56:25 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d29-San-Francisco-privatization-funder-laments-insufficient-standardized-testing?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Dont-let-city-workers-bump-vital-school-secretaries-from-their-jobs?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner Alarm is spreading through San Francisco school communities about the likelihood that the secretaries who are invaluable to school offices are threatened with being bumped from their jobs by outsiders with no experience or interest in schools.&nbs... SFUSD Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:39:20 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Dont-let-city-workers-bump-vital-school-secretaries-from-their-jobs?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Congratulations-Ceara?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner Others have already posted about Mississippi high school senior Ceara Sturgis, whose school refused to print her photo in the yearbook because the openly lesbian honors student wore a tux for her photo. I'm just reprinting the photo to ho... Ceara Sturgis Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:08:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Congratulations-Ceara?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Revolution-Foods-clients-get-bit-by-higher-costs-of-fresher-food?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner As a longtime veteran of school food advocacy, I know that the overwhelming barrier to improving cafeteria meals is lack of funding. Newcomers to the cause pop up at times to say that it’s not money – all it takes is “the will.&r... school food Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:55:21 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Revolution-Foods-clients-get-bit-by-higher-costs-of-fresher-food?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Jerry-Browns-Oakland-charter-schools-worth-a-look-in-the-governors-race?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner With former Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown in the running for governor (he was previously state governor in the '70s-early '80s and is now state attorney general), the fact that Brown founded and lavished attention and fundraising efforts on tw... charter schools Jerry Brown Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:50:41 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Jerry-Browns-Oakland-charter-schools-worth-a-look-in-the-governors-race?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Guest-post-Plan-to-give-H1N1-vaccine-in-schools-should-be-restored?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner This is a guest post by San Francisco parent Stan Goldberg, who raises concerns about the San Francisco public health decision not to administer the vaccine against the H1N1 flu strain in schools. Stan, who has adult children and became a dad ... public health H1N1 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:44:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Guest-post-Plan-to-give-H1N1-vaccine-in-schools-should-be-restored?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d22-One-more-for-Gerald-Bracey-How-to-honor-his-memory?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner Just one more post about Gerald Bracey, the dedicated, courageous, inspiring and sometimes acerbic education commentator who passed away sometime overnight Monday. Education Week reporter Debra Viadero posted on her blog about Jerry's deat... media criticism Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:13:49 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m10d22-One-more-for-Gerald-Bracey-How-to-honor-his-memory?cid=exrss-SF-Education-Examiner