Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Francisco. Show all posts
Monday, February 12, 2024

Is algebra for 8th graders repugnant because it leads to calculus?

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 The tide is shifting back towards teaching algebra in San Francisco middle schools. The WSJ has the story: I n the Battle Over Early Algebr...
Friday, July 14, 2023

Harm reduction is not a panacea: drug use and drug policy in Portugal, and San Francisco

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 The Washington Post has a story about Portugal, and the SF Chronicle has one as well. Both stories touch on the tensions between treating d...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

San Francisco's Lowell High School admissions will return to merit-based system

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 The SF Chronicle has the latest twist in this involved story over San Francisco's elite Lowell High School. Lowell High School admissio...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Lowell High School principal resigns in San Francisco, in latest setback for elite high school

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Elite public schools, which admit students by exam, are under attack in many places. In San Francisco, that would be Lowell high school, who...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Gail Cornwall responds to the recent NY Times story on SF schools

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Gail Cornwall, who follows San Francisco schools, replies to a recent article in the NY Times: A cautionary tale about linking school cho...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

School choice in San Francisco--update in the NYT

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Here's the NY Times story:  San Francisco Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse. “Our current system i...
Friday, February 2, 2018

San Francisco Will Clear Thousands of Marijuana Convictions

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What happens when a formerly repugnant transaction goes from being illegal to being legal? The NY Times has the story: San Francisco Will...
Friday, May 19, 2017

School choice in San Francisco faces ongoing problems (and not just school choice)

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The SF Chronicle has the story: Why San Francisco needs a full-time school board By Gail Cornwall, May 17, 2017    " Ever wonder ...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Congestion in SF public school choice

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One thing that computerized school choice is supposed to do is reduce congestion that sometimes stops school districts from matching studen...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Airbnb unbound: Prop F voted down in San Francisco

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Airbnb has escaped the narrow limits on rentals (75 days a year per property) that Proposition F sought to impose: SFGate has the story. P...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Proposition F: does Airbnb have a repugnance problem?

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The president won't get elected today, but it is an election day. And in San Francisco, the home of Airbnb, voters will vote on  City o...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

San Francisco may re-emphasize neighborhood schools in their school choice plan

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From the SF Chronicle: Plan's goal: Get S.F. families into neighborhood school "Unlike families who live in the suburbs, San Fra...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Public nudity: San Francisco is different

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In most places, public nudity is considered repugnant. Not in San Francisco: " Other nearby cities like Berkeley and San Jose have pa...
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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Further followup on school choice in San Francisco

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My Thursday post, Followup on school choice in San Francisco , has generated some followup on its own, in the form of an audio interview  ye...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Followup on school choice in San Francisco

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My previous post on how school choice is faring in San Francisco was called   School choice in San Francisco: a promise of transparency .  ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

School districts face a multitude of problems

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My colleagues and I mostly interact with municipal school districts regarding questions of school choice . But of course school boards and ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

School choice in San Francisco: a promise of transparency

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San Francisco school board member Rachel Norton blogs about the most recent school board meeting this week, concerning the new SF school c...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

San Francisco school choice goes in-house

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Those of you who have been following school choice developments here know that, for the past year,  Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Clayton Featherst...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

New school choice system in San Francisco

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Board Approves New Student Assignment System for San Francisco Schools  (now here ) Most of the last minute discussion was about what pri...
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Friday, December 4, 2009

School choice in San Francisco, Chicago, and Cambridge MA

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Changes in school assignment procedures are being discussed in San Francisco, Chicago, and even Cambridge, MA. In San Francisco, the rede...