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To Open the Right Doors You Need the Right Keys

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

 

Author:  Richard Carranza, Deputy Superintendent of Instruction, Innovation and Social Justice, SFUSD
SFUSD has a new goal for students entering high school in 2010. We want every one of them to graduate eligible to enroll in California’s public university system.
This should seem like an obvious goal. But today, only 54% of students in San Francisco’s public [...]

The City is Our Classroom

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Author: Milton Chen, Executive Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation
George Lucas, founder and chairman of our foundation, has said: “It’s imperative that we create new kinds of schools, freed from an educational system deeply rooted in the distant past and the kinds of schools so many of us attended decades ago.” For [...]