KQED NEWS
June 17, 2012
Mina Kim
Friday was a day of celebration for many young people in the country illegally. President Obama announced the U.S. will no longer deport them if they’re under 30 years old, have been here five years and have no felony record. Undocumented students can now study here legally. One recent UC Berkeley grad has lived under the threat of deportation most of his life. His dream? listen to the rest of the audio file to find out.
Thank you Margarita for sharing your story and showing all of us that if you set your mind to it you can achieve greatness.
Youth Radio’s Bianca Brooks examines the effects of academic tracking at her Oakland high school. Listen to this perspective.
edspace blog
June 14, 2012
Written by Matthew Williams
This past school year, 50 eleventh- and twelfth-graders at San Francisco’s Burton High School started tweeting in class for the first time. Read the rest of the article here.
Congratulations to these American Graduates! In the next couple of weeks we will share their inspiring stories and get an insight as to what they look forward to in college and beyond.
San Francisco Chronicle
June 11, 2012
Written By Jill Tucker
Like fashion, trends in public education come and go.
What’s in vogue depends on the decade and often reflects which way the political wind blows and what shiny gadgets have hit the market.
With the threat of Soviet innovation and Sputnik, old math became new math in the 1960s and then back to old arithmetic about 10 years later.
Phonics, like bell bottoms, always makes a comeback, although some fads are but brief historical blips. Think the metric system and mullets.
But with such limited time to teach, there have long been debates about what children need to know and how and when to teach it – and when to stop teaching something altogether.
Host: Michael Krasny
Writer Dave Eggers returns, this time with a much-anticipated new novel “A Hologram for the King,” which follows a struggling, middle-aged American businessman working in Saudi Arabia. Eggers joins us to discuss the book and one of its central themes: the decline of American manufacturing.
We’ll also get the latest on Eggers’ efforts to promote college access and literacy for youth.
Host: Spencer Michels
A little-known proposal from Governor Jerry Brown would eliminate the state’s mandate that all high school students get two years of science education. Sacramento says it’s in the name of fixing the budget. But many argue that subjects like science and math are only rising in importance, and nixing science is too high a price to pay.
We examine the state of science in California’s public schools.
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KQED News
June 7, 2012
Written by Mina Kim
MindShift Blog
June 4, 2012
Written By: Ann Murphy Paul
Parents and teachers expend a lot of energy getting kids to pay attention, concentrate, and focus on the task in front of them. What adults don’t do, according to University of Southern California education professor Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, is teach children the value of the more diffuse mental activity that characterizes our inner lives: daydreaming, remembering, reflecting.
Yet this kind of introspection is crucial to our mental health, to our relationships, and to our emotional and moral development. And it promotes the skill parents and teachers care so much about: the capacity to focus on the world outside our heads.
Read more about the benefits of daydreaming.