Reinventing our schools with a greater emphasis on student needs and community engagement is, I believe, one of the most broadly beneficial ways to apply the “think globally, act locally” philosophy. Indeed, many students, parents, teachers, administrators…
Original post by Nidya Baez,Douglas Cruickshank
A former Berkeley community college student originally charged with murder in the 2005 slaying of a Dartmouth College student near UC Berkeley was sentenced Friday to five years of probation on a lesser accessory charge. Christopher Wilson, 23, has admitted…
Original post by hlee@sfchronicle.com (Henry K. Lee)
A 17-year-old carrying a loaded semiautomatic weapon was arrested in a Lowell High School classroom Thursday evening, police said. The high school student, who attends evening classes, was in the classroom with other students when staff noticed a smell of…
Original post by jtucker@sfchronicle.com (Jill Tucker)
Tom Kealey has taught a lot of writing classes at Stanford University, but never one that asked students to consider the dramatic pause provided by the “page flip.” Or how wide to draw “the gutter.” Kealey and co-instructor Adam Johnson taught a winter course…
Original post by jberton@sfchronicle.com (Justin Berton)
State Sen. Jack Scott, the influential chairman of the Senate Education Committee, will take charge of the California Community Colleges system in January after an 11-year career in the state Legislature, it was announced Thursday. After a national search,…
Original post by jtucker@sfchronicle.com (Jill Tucker)
The first University of California president to be hired from outside the system since 1899, Mark Yudof does not fit the regal profile of past UC leaders. He chews on a fat cigar and makes jokes about his sparse hair. He sports the burnt orange ties of his…
Original post by tschevitz@sfchronicle.com (Tanya Schevitz)
Leaders of the huge California Community College system announced an unprecedented $50 million gift Tuesday from the Bernard Osher Foundation in what’s believed to be the largest donation ever made to a two-year college system in the United States. The 109-…
Original post by csturrock@sfchronicle.com (Carrie Sturrock)
Santa Clara County prosecutors never sought the grand jury testimony of three young women who rescued a 17-year-old girl allegedly being sexually assaulted at a house party hosted by members of the De Anza College baseball team, two of the women said Monday. “…
Original post by jcote@sfchronicle.com (John Coté)
Alameda County prosecutors are expected to decide today what criminal charges to file against a 20-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a UC Berkeley engineering student during a chaotic late-night confrontation on fraternity row near campus. Prosecutors…
Original post by dbulwa@sfchronicle.com (Demian Bulwa)
Parcel taxes can be a hard sell even in flush times. This June - with a brutal housing market and a looming recession - San Francisco residents might hesitate at a $198 annual parcel tax for the San Francisco Unified School District. But Proposition A isn’t…
Original post by tschevitz@sfchronicle.com (Tanya Schevitz)