The Oakland Education Week in Review: 8/5-8/12

Last week– the latest numbers on unhoused students, how SFUSD houses students at a school, the start of the school year with lots of new principals in new schools, and still looking for teachers, important parent perspectives, a historical look at OUSD, Mam is a language of growing importance, all that and much more, with links. Please read share and get involved.

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  • Cesar Sayoc, Who Mailed Pipe Bombs to Trump Critics, Is Sentenced to 20 Years
    • Sayoc sent the bombs to prominent Democrats, setting off a frenzied investigation that unnerved the country before last year’s midterm elections.
  • Trump Is a White Nationalist Who Inspires Terrorism
    • A decade ago, Daryl Johnson, then a senior terrorism analyst at the Department of Homeland Security, wrote a report about the growing danger of right-wing extremism in America. Citing economic dislocation, the election of the first African-American president and fury about immigration, he concluded that “the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years.”
  • Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88
    • Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in literature whose best-selling work explored black identity in America — and in particular the often crushing experience of black women — through luminous, incantatory prose resembling that of no other writer in English, died on Monday in the Bronx. She was 88.
  • Why we factor suspension rates into how we identify top schools for underserved students
    • If a school has strong academic results, but high suspension rates, is that a problem? We think so. That, however, is not a view that is universally shared. 
  • Optimism Alone Won’t Create a Successful School Year
    • The smell of education is in the air. Parents have bought uniforms. School supplies are packed up and ready to go. Teachers have completed their beginning of the year requirements, decorated their classrooms and have received finalized student rolls. Students are fully aware that summer break is shortly coming to an end. As the new school year comes upon us, there is a need to get a better grasp on a more sufficient and efficient level of education.
  • Aging onto the street
    • Nearly half of older homeless people fell into trouble after age 50, new research shows. Meet three people who worked hard in life but fell through a tattered safety net
  • National Study Bolsters Case for Teaching ‘Growth Mindset’
    • Any student’s self-confidence can take a hit at the start of high school. Yet giving students even a brief opportunity to understand and reflect on their mindsets for learning can make them likelier to challenge themselves and improve, finds a new national study in the journal Nature.
  • Announcing the fourth Cohort of the Deeper Learning Equity Fellows
    • Big Picture Learning and Internationals Network for Public Schools are proud to announce the fourth cohort of the Deeper Learning Equity Fellowship, made up of seventeen leaders who will dedicate a significant portion of the next two years to addressing issues of education inequity in their local communities. This cohort joins a group of 40 Equity Fellows already steeped in this important work.

Resources:

  • 11 Terms You Should Know to Better Understand Structural Racism
    • The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change works with leading innovators to produce strong and reliable frameworks for successful and sustainable community change and development. Read below for a glossary  of terms related to understanding structural racism and promoting racial equity analysis.

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