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East Palo Alto teacher creates middle school tutoring program to tackle education gaps
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 2020, Harriette Huang left behind an engineering and tech-related career to become a teacher in East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood District, where her goal was to minimize education gaps between Ravenswood schools and schools just outside the city. But she quickly realized that...
Cupertino Principal Surprised with Grant from 49ers Foundation
Every year, the San Francisco 49ers Foundation hands out more than $20,000 in grants to local educators. The Follow Your Bliss Award, inspired by Dr. Harry Edwards, honors local educators “… who lead our future generation with purpose, passion, dedication and love despite uncertainties and any hurdles they may face.”
Palo Alto to open public high school-college hybrid at Foothill College
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Some high school students are stressed about the prospect of Advanced Placement testing. Others want to focus on their passions – photography, theater, engineering. “What they all have in common is that they want to try something different,” said Simon Pennington, associate vice...
Navigator Schools employ innovative teaching techniques
Lea este artículo en español aquí. Navigator Schools, a network including Gilroy Prep, Hollister Prep, Watsonville Prep and Hayward Collegiate, use a student-led model of education as opposed to the typical teacher-led system. At Hollister Prep, which was founded in 2013, a classroom is very active, and...
The Oakland Ed Week in Review 7/6/24-7/12/24
We’re back with our roundup of education news from around The Town, the Bay Area, state, and nation for your weekend reading. This is a Dirk favorite and one of the last blogs he published for Great School Voices. Here’s what’s been going on:. Here in Oakland...
Strawser | Don’t let democracy die at Stanford
Two autumns ago, I joined The Daily because I wanted to make my Stanford experience into something with purpose. It will forever be my honor to have covered issues like Title IX advocacy, religious life, the Shopping Express, affirmative action, leadership transitions and university governance. The journey, certainly a challenging...
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