Teachers Deserve Better Salaries
Educators speak out on Alameda’s poorly paid teachers.
Immersing in Emeryville
The East Bay German International School appears to be thriving in its new location.
Trying to Avoid the Contact High
Alameda school board members and parents were influential in convincing the city to scale back its plan to legalize cannabis.
The Right to Read
Alameda County’s Write to Read program has surprising results for incarcerated male teens at Camp Sweeney.
Helping Kids Tame Their Inner Dragons
Alameda schools are turning to socio-emotional learning techniques to help students manage anger and emotions.
The Wrong Path?
Paideia helped turn Oakland Tech into the best public high school in the city. But some teachers and parents are worried about the future of the acclaimed humanities program.
The Spanish Teaching Shortage
In Oakland, where the shortage of language instructors is particularly acute, the school district has been recruiting teachers from Mexico and Spain.
Teaching Environmental Literacy
California has launched a movement to help students understand climate change and human impacts on water and ecological systems.
School in Early August?
Oakland Unified is planning to start school on Aug. 13 next year, and some parents and camp directors don’t like it.
Bridging Tech’s Diversity Gap
Learners Guild reboots technology education with a new model.
