- The Latino “problem”: America’s addiction to cheap labor
- “Them” Apples: An account of one funeral in Oakland
- Provoking a Fed: Why NCLB won’t work
- The billionaires' Frankenstein monster: The state takeover of OUSD
- A recent history of OUSD: Billionaire Eli Broad’s connection to Oakland's state-occupied school district
- My farewell: Saying goodbye to Bret Harte
- Avoidable Losses, and more: When we look back on these years, what will we see?
- Oakland’s history: A very short history of Oakland and its primary subgroups
- Actual learning time: It turns out that students spend very little time in the classroom
- Different childrearing styles: About “concerted cultivation” and “natural growth” (from A. Lareau)
- Lessons learned: My family’s Oakland public school experience
- Not for the squeamish: Oakland middle school graffiti
- Part 1: Another view of the Oakland situation: A small set of students is very powerful
- Poetry: the Spielberg incident: From “The Best American Poetry 2003”
- Part 2: Another view of the Oakland situation: The power of the “code,” and newcomers disregard a community’s history
- Happy Birthday, pooch!: Some students’ day off and an on-duty dog
- Right, again.: Suspensions and expulsions in OUSD
- Part 3: Another view of the Oakland situation: This new approach is missing the boat
- OUSD alternative schools: A summary for the community
- Chinese language basics: A brief lesson (since so many people, including many OUSD personnel, are clueless)
- Poetry: Lady Bobcats: Beauty on the courts
- The starvation diet of one school: Just how much will be taken away while nobody says a thing?
- Why They Kill: Crime waves, babies being born, and hopelessness
- Teachers displaying status (or not): Why new teachers need to know about “status transactions”
- One response to Nextset: Considering the damage caused by decades-long unemployment
- Gang Awareness Workshop: Commentary and Summary: Information that needs to get out to my community
- Poetry: Lake Bret Harte: Remembering the stench.
- A dirty secret about philanthropists: Millionaires and billionaires think they know how to turn every pauper kid into the bourgeois
- Any evidence of shame?: Watch “gangsta 7 year old steals car” on YouTube
- Four stories: Church volunteers, at the movies, the lawyer’s son, and a lovely young woman
- Who would have guessed?: A look at OUSD’s increasing achievement gap
- Fifteen percent: One interracial marriage
- (School) climate change: The real reason why parents won’t use public schools
- Poetry: Arithmetic Lessons: A client accepts a deal
- What else contributes?: A look at less popular factors that can influence test scores
- On nurturing: Struggling schools are missing TLC
- Different kinds of parents: Stories from the front line, and what struggling schools are coping with
- The Parent Center years: How it all started, what I did, and why I left
- High 9’s, low 9’s and homerooms: Maybe we should take a look at ideas from the past
- Unrealistic expectations: About those young, idealistic, temporary teachers, and Rothstein explains the achievement gap
- Because it’s interesting: A love letter from a drug addict to his jailed wife
- Poetry: Family Album: That the school was selling so much junk food nearly drove me nuts
- Caring, or not, and how much: Is it enough to say one “cares?”
- Our “democracy”: Something has happened to our country
- The struggle: It’s not always easy to be a public school booster
- 1927 news story: “Girl In Man’s Attire Ordered To Leave City”
- Poetry: A Daguerreotype of "Renty," a Congo Slave
- The Broader, Bolder Approach : A well-reasoned strategy to lift all children
- Old dogs and new tricks vs. seeing the light: Embracing the local public school, instead of shunning it, could help it become the school of your dreams
- An update on “The Gap”: A growing achievement gap between the two lowest-performing groups
- “Sellout”: Randall Kennedy’s book sheds light on one reason for low academic achievement
- Baby College: Geoffrey Canada’s HCZ is looking for the answer
- Expulsions, student behavior, and the shortcomings of principals: Negative student behavior could be reduced if a strategic, unified plan existed.
- It’s really quite simple: The billionaire changes his mind about small schools being the answer
- A letter to prospective parents: Sharing our high school experience
- Haves and Have-Nots : Comparing the school districts of Piedmont and Oakland Unified
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