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GSE In the Media Archive
Read, hear or see when GSE faculty, alumni or programs are included in print, radio and TV media outlets.
Links to the articles summarized below are time sensitive, so stories may no longer be online at that URL. Articles that may require a subscription for viewing are noted in parentheses.
2006
Principal Leadership Institute Coordinator Lynda Tredway addresses the shortage of qualified principals.
California Faces New Shortage: Principals
KGO-TV News Dec. 8, 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller says that the state lacks a unified approach to improving low-performing schools.
Some Calif. Achievement Gaps Are Widening, Study Finds
Education Week (registration) Nov. 29, 2006Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) study shows that schools that participated in the state's II/USP (immediate intervention/underperforming school program) "showed no advantage over similar schools that did not participate."
New strategies in education war
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Nov. 26, 2006Assistant Professor Ingrid Seyer-Ochi hails Dellums Commission report detailing policy recommendations to improve life options for young men of color.
Dellums panel urges help for men of color
Oakland mayor-elect heads national study seeking new policies
San Francsico Chronicle Nov. 14, 2006Too many students are invisible to UC says GSE professor David Stern, a co-author of a discussion paper titled "California at a Crossroads."
The legacy of Prop. 209
San Francisco Chronicle Nov. 6, 2006The California College Preparatory Academy takes scholarship seriously as it motivates students for universities.
Campus, Charter Schools Team Up to Prep Kids for College
Daily Californian Oct. 13, 2006Principals Leadership Institute prepares students to be principals.
UC Berkeley program aims to train candidates for administrative post that has frightened many away
Oakland Tribune Oct. 2, 2006Associate Professor Patricia Baquedano-Lopez discusses the complex process of language and speech acquisition.
Childhood Matters
KISS-FM and KRXA-AM Sep. 24, 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller says that commercial tutoring interests are instilling fear in parents that they need to do more for their children.
Tutors Prepare Them -- for Preschool and Kindergarten
Los Angeles Times (registration) Sep. 24, 2006
GSE creates a new minor with the School of Social Welfare and the psychology department that will focus on early childhood psychology, education and policy.
New Minor Set to Debut in Spring
Daily Californian Sep. 16, 2006
Associate professor Frank Worrell says that younger, successful students are well rounded.
16-Year-Olds Among Berkeley's Freshman Class
KGO Channel 7 Sep. 15, 2006
Associate professor Frank Worrell, faculty director of the Academic Talent Development Program, says that smarts alone don't guarantee success.
Newest whiz kids more than just super-smart
UC Berkeley News Sep. 12, 2006Associate professor Frank Worrell says that the achievement gap is one of the longest-standing and most intractable problems in public education.
Student scores highlight glaring achievement gap
Stockton Record Sep. 2, 2006Cognition and Development Professor Marcia Linn writes that interactive lessons and embedded assessments like the ones used in The Technology-Enhanced Science (TELS) Center can deepen student understanding of complex ideas.
Teaching and Assessing Knowledge Integration in Science
Science Aug. 25, 2006Norton Grubb, professor of education, says that parent fundraising is a two-way street.
Schools lean on parents to close their budget gaps
San Jose Mercury News (registration) Aug. 27, 2006Harley Shaiken discusses the proposed minimum wage increases, the "living wage" movement, and the potential effect on businesses, workers and consumers.
The Minimum Wage
Forum KQED FM Aug. 23, 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller writes that it's time to reshape No Child Left Behind toward "a more resourceful, more motivating rendition of accountability."
Commentary: Accountability Plus
As National Test Scores Stall, Rethinking No Child Left Behind
Education Week (registration) Aug. 9, 2006The ATDP program at Richmond's Washington Elementary School is one of the East Bay's best-kept secrets, according to Tom Lochner of the Contra Costa Times.
Where We Live
Contra Costa Times (registration) July 26, 2006Five Cal Prep rising seventh graders are receiving academic enrichment and opportunities in the arts through the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater program this summer.
Kids from the 'hood get breakfast, lunch and a new attitude at Cal dance camp
Pictured: Cal Prep's Ayinde Webb
San Francisco Chronicle July 20, 2006UC Links collaboration brings educational activities and resources to Lousiana hurricane relief program.
Tent Tutoring
LSU Today (last article on web page) July 14, 2006PACE study documents how states inflate test scores by lowering standards for No Child Left Behind.
California Study Questions Validity of Gains Under NCLB
Education Week (registration) July 13, 2006The School Testing Dodge
New York Times editorial (registration) July 2, 2006
Reading gains slowing, study says
Los Angeles Times (registration) June 30, 2006
States distort test scores, researchers say
San Francisco Chronicle June 30, 2006Academic Talent Development Program still going strong at 25
Luring students passionate about learning
UC Berkeley News June 28, 2006GSE alumnus Eric Rofes, a leading scholar, author and activist in the gay community, has died.
Eric Rofes -- scholar, educator, gay men's health activist
San Francisco Chronicle June 28 , 2006Professor Marcia Linn presented her research on the use of technology in teaching middle- and high-school math and science with membes of Congress.
Popular Capitol Hill Science Exhibit Highlights Math and Science Education
APA Online June 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller discusses the future universal preschool funding in the wake of Proposition 82's defeat on election day, June 6.
Preschool supporters aren't giving up on their quest
San Francisco Chronicle June 8 , 2006Frank Worrell, Director of the School Psychology program, believes schools need to reframe the snitching issue.
Where We Live: T-shirts make fashion, social statements
Contra Costa Times June 6 , 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller discussed or wrote about Proposition 82, the preschool initiative on the June ballot, in several media outlets during the month of May.
California Initiative Renews Preschool Debate
Washington Post (registration) May 30, 2006Proposition 82: Universal Preschool
Forum, KQED FM May 25, 2006Preschool Directors Discuss Proposition 82
UC Berkeley press release, May 16, 2006Related article
Reaction mixed on whether ballot measure a good idea
San Francisco Chronicle, May 16, 2006
Georgia's Preschool System Gets High Marks
The public loves the program, similar to a California initiative. But there are critics.
Los Angeles Times (registration) May 7, 2006
No toddler left behind?
Sacramento Bee May 7, 2006Nadine Lambert Obituaries
Los Angeles Times (registration) May 6, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle May 6, 2006
Contra Costa Times May 6, 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller says his survey of more than 400 preschool directorshas raised numerous questions about Prop. 82.
Preschool Politics
Pros and cons of universal education initiative aired
San Francisco Chronicle May 3, 2006Amanda Asdel, a Principal Leadership Institute graduate, has helped turn around the performance of San Francisco's Glen Park Elementary as the school’s instructional-reform facilitator.
Kinder and Gentler
Instead of cracking down on low-achieving schools, the San Francisco school district offers them a helping hand.
Education Week (registration) April 12, 2006Principal Leadership Institute graduate Angela Stevenson helped turn around Pittsburg's Los Medanos School.
School overcomes obstacles, achieves
High expectations help Los Medanos win recognition as one of California's top Title I schools
Contra Costa Times April 5, 2006In a letter to the editor, GSE Dean P. David Pearson writes that schools should teach reading as a "tool" to support learning the big ideas found in subject-matter instruction.
Reading, Rehashing, 'Rithmetic
New York Times (registration) March 28, 2006
Harley Shaiken, GSE professor in Language and Literacy, Society and Culture, continues to gain wide media coverage discussing labor relations, including the recent cutbacks at General Motors:
Hiring of Temporary Workers Pushes G.M. Shares Up 8%
New York Times (subscription) May 25, 2006
Small Town Rocks Retail Giant
To keep Wal-Mart out, a Bay Area city votes to use eminent domain to acquire land the firm owns and intends to build on.
Los Angeles Times (subscription) May 25, 2006Advertising: Anti-Union Group Takes Message to the Airwaves
TV Spots Employ Sarcasm In a Campaign to Discredit Practices of Organized Labor
Wall Street Journal (subscription) May 19, 2006Big 3 Leaders Lobby on the Hill
Auto Chiefs Discuss Ethanol, Pension Reform With Lawmakers
Washington Post (subscription) May 18, 2006
Labor Unions and Big Business
Forum, KQED FM March 24, 2006Auto Repair
Lehrer News Hour March 23, 2006Cognition and Development professor Alan Schoenfeld details how the What Works Clearinghouse was directed by its federal sponsor to suppress his essay, solicited by the Clearinghouse, about curricular interventions in mathematics, and how the integrity of the research enterprise in many fields, including education, is at stake.
What Doesn't Work: The Challenge and Failure of the What Works Clearinghouse to Conduct Meaningful Reviews of Studies of Mathematics Curricula (pdf)Overcoming the Challenges: A Response to Alan H. Schoenfeld's "What Doesn't Work" (pdf)
Rebecca Herman, Robert Boruch, Rebecca Powell, Steven Fleischman, and Rebecca MaynardReply to Comments From the What Works Clearinghouse on "What Doesn't Work" (pdf)
Educational Researcher March 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller questions the cost and recipients of free, universal preschool.
Universal preschool plan fuels debate
San Jose Mercury News March 14, 2006GSE professor Herb Simons discusses the false assumptions about student-athletes
'Dumb jocks' can be pretty smart
UC Berkeley professor oversees master's studies program that focuses on student-athletes
Oakland Tribune Feb. 21, 2006Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller weighs in on the legal fallout from the state-imposed high school exit exam.
Parents to test state's exam law
Contra Costa Times Feb. 8, 2006
In his Chronicle op-ed, education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller questions whether preschool will be the next centralized, micromanaged education policy.
Universal preschool – Democrats' new embrace of big government
San Francisco Chronicle Jan. 29, 20062005
School of Education Assistant Professor Ingrid Seyer-Ochi and Emeryville Unified School District Superintendent Tony Smith, a GSE graduate, led a discussion on how Emeryville transformed its schools and city policies by placing education at the heart of redevelopment. Background article is below:
Y-PLAN chugs along, linking students and their neighborhoods
High-schoolers work with Berkeley mentors on projects meant to revitalize their communities
Berkeleyan Nov. 3, 2005Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller and child development research director Margaret Bridges author study of more than 14,000 kindergartners nationwide. Media coverage includes:
UC study examines preschool benefits
By third grade, no difference shown among students
San Francisco Chronicle Jan. 27, 2006Preschool: The newest studies on the long-term effects of pre-school on young children
Forum, KQED FM Nov, 4, 2005
Three Rs for the Littlest Ones
A new study out shows even the children of middle class parents benefit from public preschool
Marketplace Nov. 2, 2005Preschool study finds bright side, dark side
It helps language, math — can hurt social development
San Francisco Chronicle Nov. 1, 2005Athletic Study Center (ASC) director and GSE lecturer Derek Van Rheenen, discusses mentoring student-athletes
Campus Programs Help Students Stay in School
UC Notes, Nov. 2005The California College Preparatory Academy (Cal Prep), a new charter school collaborative between UC Berkeley and Aspire Public Schools, continues to get press coverage. Quotes from GSE Associate Professor Frank Worrell, Cal Prep Principal Michael Prada, a Ed.D. student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership, and other GSE faculty.
Stanford, Cal go to school
Universities run public campuses to prepare needy kids for college
San Francisco Chronicle Oct. 31, 2005Enrollment increases at charters
Growth across state greatest in urban areas, including Oakland
Oakland Tribune Oct. 12, 2005Education professor Marcia Linn discusses the limitations of No Child Left Behind legislation
Education can crush poverty
San Francisco Chronicle Sep. 16, 2005Education professor Glynda Hull dispatches from Katrina aftermath
A little bit of everything at the Astrodome
UC Berkeley News, Sep. 2005Education and public policy professor Bruce Fuller questions why the Bush adminsitration has not published bilingual education results that it didn't wanted to hear
The un-empirical presidency
Los Angeles Times, (subscription), Aug. 24, 2005
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