February 19, 2013, 10:07 AM
LONG BEACH – Jandella Faulkner crouches beside a table of busy third-graders in Jennifer Larsen’s class at Edison Elementary School. The students have pencils in hand, outlines spread around them, and a story about penguins and otters in progress. Faulkner stands to call across the...
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December 7, 2012, 12:05 AM
Under proposals the state's teacher credentialing agency is set to consider today, school districts would need to show on a case-by-case basis that no fully credentialed teachers are available before they resort to less-qualified educators, and under-prepared teachers could serve a maximum...
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October 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
Amy Youngman’s seventh- and eighth-grade humanities students had left for the day. Other than some shouts from the after-school program in the courtyard, all was quiet in her second-floor classroom here. Youngman’s day of teaching at Oakland’s ERES Academy – part of the...
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May 6, 2011, 12:05 AM
Among the first organizations in California to feel the pain of Washington's drive to slash federal spending is the Berkeley-based National Writing Project, which has issued layoff notices to 60 percent of its employees. As California Watch noted in March, the project was dealt ...
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March 8, 2011, 12:08 AM
After decades of federal support, an acclaimed writing program that began at UC Berkeley 37 years ago, faces a difficult future due to budget cuts agreed to by Congress and the Obama administration. The $25 million elimination of federal funds to the National Writing Project, which...
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January 24, 2011, 12:05 AM
Just as more teachers are facing performance rankings of their work, dozens of teacher training schools in California will be judged for the first time in a nationwide survey set for publication in U.S. News and World Report. The planned rankings come against a backdrop of...
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