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State school board adopts Common Core standards

State school board adopts Common Core standards

California will toss out its current curriculum and require students to read the same textbooks and...

Tragedy puts UC Berkeley house in spotlight

Tragedy puts UC Berkeley house in spotlight

A once-promising UC Berkeley junior lies in his parents' San Diego home, a breathing tube down his...



Veterans of the math wars

I am a veteran of the math wars. I was there in 1995 when the shiny new California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test told graders...

Chronicle 8.1.10 4:00 AM

Girl is mother of the woman

I never gave much credence to the theory that one's personality is formed by first or second grade, until I recently found my...

Chronicle 8.1.10 4:00 AM

Orpheus Crutchfield is lifelong mentor

When your full name is Orpheus Sean Luiz Crutchfield, you start out old. By the time he was a teenager, Orph, as he came to be known...

Chronicle 8.1.10 4:00 AM

S.F. State students learn how to teach

The beginning of the school year is a time of optimism, and nobody in the wide world of education is more optimistic than the 168...

Chronicle 8.1.10 4:00 AM

1st high school stem cell curriculum offered

California is home to some of the world's most promising stem cell research, but to sustain the industry, the state will need an...

Chronicle 7.31.10 4:00 AM

Oakland school board puts parcel tax on ballot

Oakland voters will decide a $195 parcel tax on the November ballot, a measure approved by the school board late Thursday night that...

Chronicle 7.31.10 4:00 AM

Board seeks to shutter failing charter schools

Failing charter schools across California could be shut down by the state Board of Education under a major policy shift aimed at...

Chronicle 7.29.10 7:26 PM

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