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School health centers expand despite lack of state funding
By Louis Freedberg. Two of the state’s largest districts are undergoing a major expansion of health centers on school campuses after promised help from Sacramento never came. To build new facilities, Oakland and Los Angeles are tapping a combination of voter-approved bond money, fees from…
Author: California Watch
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UCSF Works to Improve Lives of Oakland Middle-School Students
The Havenscourt Health Center recently opened in an Oakland middle school to serve youth and families as part of the Elev8 project. UCSF, the Oakland Unified School District and an array of community-based partners are embarking on a quest to improve the lives of disadvantaged…
Author: UCSF
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Kennedy Addresses School Reform at the Center for American Progress
Kennedy Discusses Benefits of Expanded Learning Time and the Massachusetts Model Washington, D.C. Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy discussed the critical importance of improving student performance and closing the achievement gaps for all students through expanding time for learning and enrichment at the Center for…
Author: American Chronicle
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Community Pulse: Oakland School District is building eight school-based health centers
By Erica Mu. The Pulse pulls together the week’s community health, healthcare, medical and health research headlines. Below is an excerpt. Community Pulse It takes a village to keep a clinic open – at least that’s the case with Lyon-Martin Health Services, San Francisco’s Castro-based…
Author: KALW News
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When School Discipline Is Unfair: Four Ways to Do Better
A new set of reports dives deep into the complex causes of inequities in school discipline and offers details on what schools can do to create a climate that is both orderly and fair. A student gets his books from his locker at Alisal High…
Author: Christian Science Monitor
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Groups Ask Districts to Stop Using Out-of-School Suspensions
By Nirvi Shah Several national groups are asking school districts to stop suspending students out of school and replace this form of discipline with what they consider to be “more constructive” approaches that benefit students, teachers, and communities. The New York-based Dignity in Schools Campaign…
Author: Education Week
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A school, and a neighborhood, losing a leader
Grant Middle School, through the Elev8 initiative, is an Atlantic grantee. by Lloyd Jojola After 13 years as Grant Middle School principal, Ed Briggs, the man who says he aspired to be a runner, not a walker, in life and in education, is slowing the pace. Briggs…
Author: Albuquerque Journal
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Doodle Den Is Tackling Inequality After School in Limerick
Conor Neill (6) with his class in the Doodle Den in St Michael’s Infants School in Limerick. Photograph: Brian Gavin/Press 22 By Carl O’Brien A few weeks ago Siobhán Neill took her six-year-old son, Conor, to McDonald’s as a treat. She was about to ask…
Author: The Irish Times
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Lack of support leaves Bermuda's young men on the scrap heap - report
The below Royal Gazette article features some of the findings of a new report, “Out of School and ‘On the Wall’: A qualitative look into the lives of unemployed young Black Bermudian men and the gender gap in educational attainment,” by Drs. Monique Jethwani-Keyser and…
Author: The Royal Gazette
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Rethinking School Discipline for Better Opportunities
By Kavitha Mediratta Zero tolerance school discipline policies leave young men of color most vulnerable — but it doesn’t have to be that way. All young people should have the opportunity to succeed. It’s a fundamentally American argument, and also the core value of the…
Author: Huffington Post