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February 21, 2021

Ravenswood Middle School Stuck in Virtual Learning, Exacerbates Systemic Racism at M-A

Amidst the scramble to get middle school students off zoom and back in classrooms, the already existing divisions of opportunity across racial and socioeconomic lines…

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February 6, 2021

Ravenswood School District Navigates Contact Tracing for Reopening Plan

Like every other school in California, learning for Ravenswood students has been massively disrupted by remote learning since March, so the district wants to re-imagine…

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January 23, 2021

District Superintendents Discuss the History of Educational Inequality in the South Peninsula

This Monday, MPCSD Superintendent Erik Burmeister, Ravenswood Superintendent Gina Sudaria, and M-A’s principal Simone Rick-Kennel met as part of a speaker series trilogy to discuss…

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May 7, 2018

Math at M-A: Something Just Doesn’t Add Up

Editors' Note: This story is part two of the ongoing series, A School Divided. When do you think you chose the math class you're in? You're…

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March 10, 2017

Paige Richards Reflects on Teaching at Willow Oaks School

I strolled into the cafe to see Paige Richards already at a table in the corner, eagerly reading Academic Conversations, a book on encouraging productive…

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March 9, 2017

Inequality Affects Local School Districts

It’s no secret that there are huge differences between our two local elementary school districts, Menlo Park City School District (MPCSD), and Ravenswood City School…

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March 9, 2017

30 Million Word Gap: Why Some Kids Are Left Behind

Early in the 1990's, researchers at Rice University found shocking statistics about how socio-economic status prepares a toddler for school. Children from lower-income families heard…

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March 9, 2017

Lights, Camera, Take Action: Creating a Ravenswood drama program

In 2012, along with the radical changes to Hillview Middle School’s campus, including the construction of a state-of-the-art performing arts center, the school hired a…

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March 9, 2017

Meet the Team: Making Music from Ravenswood to M-A

According to Google Maps, the K-8 school is a six-minute drive and just 1.6 miles from M-A. At its entrance, a wooden white board proudly…

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February 27, 2017

The Bay Area Remains a Land of Progress…and So Much Inequality

Silicon Valley's reputation as a land of groundbreaking technology, quiet residential streets, and shining Teslas has become so ingrained that simply saying the term 'Bay…

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