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"Cyber High" helps students get back on track
The SF Chronicle has a nice feature on the Cyber High program, which helps struggling students recover or gain credits in order to graduate on time. Since December, the Internet courses have allowed s… more →
Rachel Norton: SF Board of Education
"Cyber High" helps students get back on track
rpnorton wrote 1 week ago: The SF Chronicle has a nice feature on the Cyber High program, which helps struggling students recov … more →
Expanding access to advanced placement
rpnorton wrote 1 week ago: The New York Times reports on an interesting program in the urban, high-poverty Newark, NJ school di … more →
First joint City College-SFUSD meeting tonight
rpnorton wrote 2 weeks ago: The first meeting of the joint SFUSD – City College committee will be held tonight at 5 p.m., … more →
The Vallas Prescription: Notes from CUBE
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rpnorton wrote 2 weeks ago: This morning was the final keynote of the CUBE summer issues forum, delivered by Paul Vallas, the he … more →
Notes from the CUBE Issues Seminar
rpnorton wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been in Chicago this weekend attending the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) s … more →
Bayview kindergartners, then and now
rpnorton wrote 1 month ago: The Chronicle has a nice feature today on a class of Kindergartners who enrolled at George Washingto … more →
Is green the new color of education reform?
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rpnorton wrote 2 months ago: This week’s New Yorker has a very interesting article about Steve Barr, the founder of Green … more →
Views of public school assignment in New York
rpnorton wrote 2 months ago: A friend of mine recently returned from a trip to New York City and was fascinated by differing atti … more →
A sobering view of the state of inner-city schools
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rpnorton wrote 3 months ago: A Baltimore Sun education reporter writes about a talk she had with noted education reformer Jonatha … more →
Mommies vs. Hipsters: Taco truck smackdown!
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rpnorton wrote 3 months ago: Sorry, I have to be a little snide about today’s smackdown at the Board of Appeals. We were th … more →
Feeding every hungry child
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rpnorton wrote 3 months ago: Last night the Board also passed a resolution co-sponsored by Commissioner Wynns and I entitled … more →
Ideas for Improving Education in the US
Lisa HW wrote 3 months ago: Thoughts on Ways to Improve the US Education System Improving schools in the US would not always inv … more →
Tidbits from Round I data
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rpnorton wrote 3 months ago: It’s now been a week since the Round I assignment letters went out, and depending on where you … more →
Upcoming student assignment meetings
rpnorton wrote 4 months ago: It was pretty late last night when I finished posting and I neglected to list two upcoming student a … more →
Student Assignment update - March 9
rpnorton wrote 4 months ago: At this month’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assignment, we kicked things off wi … more →
How to Save Money in Education
thereadingzone wrote 4 months ago: Jay Mathew’s column in the Washington Post today lists seven ways that schools can save money … more →
Study: Guns at School
rpnorton wrote 5 months ago: Speaking as a San Francisco parent and school board Commissioner, it’s not exactly the most fu … more →
Improving the work of school site councils
rpnorton wrote 5 months ago: SFUSD parent Don Krause has written a guest “School Beat” column on Beyond Chron, detail … more →
A post-private school city?
rpnorton wrote 6 months ago: In this month’s San Francisco magazine, local writer and parent Diana Kapp has written an arti … more →
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