Dr. Jim Taylor | September 27, 2010 For those of you who follow my education-related posts (here is a primer), you know I’m no fan of testing in public schools as it is currently conceived and used. In my view, the cart is firmly before the horse, where the horse of quality education is being [...]
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Napa Valley Register | Posted: September 24, 2010 Dear editor, Speaking from the experience of having a student in the new high school at American Canyon, I can say that the school is a wonderful facility. I am, however, not happy about aspects of the teaching agenda. The SC-21 program is a sham and it [...]
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Roger Runningen | Posted: October 4, 2010 President Barack Obama plans to announce an initiative today that links companies including McDonald’s Corp. and United Technologies Corp. with community colleges for programs aimed at boosting the job skills of American workers. Gap Inc., Pacific Gas & Electric, and Accenture Plc also are among the first firms [...]
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Caille Millner | Posted: October 4, 2010 Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary, “Waiting for ‘Superman,’ ” is going to be a talker. The film, which won an audience award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, composes a thoroughly convincing portrait of the dysfunctions within American public education as it follows four children in search of a [...]
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Michael Alger | Posted: October 6, 2010 In response to “Parent takes issue with local curriculum” (Sept. 24), an open letter to William Fuchs: Dear Mr. Fuchs, I am a teacher at Vintage High school, and I teach a combined English/geography course like the one you complained about in your letter to the editor. While [...]
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Teresa Chin | Posted: October 8, 2010 Hundreds of moviegoers were more than willing to brave the 45-minute line in front of the Piedmont Theater on Wednesday night for a free screening of Waiting for Superman, the controversial new documentary that some movie reviewers say could change the face of American education. The screening, which [...]
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Napa Valley Register | October 9, 2010 Dear editor, Last Thursday’s letter from Chuck McMinn of St. Helena and NapaLearns (“Group work not tantamount to socialism,” Sept. 30, 2010) states that the project-based learning at New Tech High has resulted in higher scores on the California standardized tests. I would respectfully point out that Napa [...]
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Napa Valley Register | Posted: October 11,2010 The more we have read about the ongoing controversy over the SC21 curriculum, the more we felt compelled to comment. Our daughter attended New Tech High School in its inaugural year for freshman students, 2004. She, in the beginning, expressed her frustrations with the points brought up about [...]
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Nanette Asimov | Posted: October 20, 2011 Bryan Guillermo stared at his dismal grade report and considered dropping the math class he had just begun at City College of San Francisco. It was fall 2004. Two months into his first semester, Guillermo already felt overwhelmed by the basic algebra, quadratic equations and polynomials covered in [...]
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NATALIE HOFFMAN | Posted: October 20, 2010 Napa Valley Unified School District administrators are expecting $4 million more from California’s new budget, but major uncertainties prevent celebration. Although the new state budget paints a better-than-expected financial picture for the school district, real fiscal relief is not in sight, Debbie Brenner, the school district’s assistant superintendent [...]
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