In recent years‚ the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has made progress towards its ambitious vision of all students graduating from high school as “caring‚ competent and critical thinkers‚ fully-informed‚ engaged and contributing citizens . . . prepare[d] to succeed in college and career.” Since 2012‚ for example‚ the reading proficiency of high school students has nearly doubled from 19% to 38%. Yet OUSD continues to face significant challenges‚ and consistently trails the State of California
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create a sustainable competitive advantage. In Moneyball a new General Manager challenges a traditional industry with a new paradigm. He successfully deals with the resulting resistance from the more tradition oriented employees. In the case of the Oakland A ’s this has led to a substantial competitive advantage through lower costs (their payroll goes down) and improved output (the have a higher percentage of win’s) which leads to an increase in return (average cost of a run is among the lowest in baseball)
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Southwest airlines and "Continental Lite" and "Shuttle By United". As they were beginning the meeting a staff member advised the team of two changes "Shuttle By United" made to its service and pricing. First was the discontinuation of service for the Oakland-Ontario‚ California market. Second‚ the one-way walk-up first class and coach fairs had been increased by $10.00. The focus of that Tuesday meeting was set aside and the attention focused on what to make of the developments and how Southwest Airlines
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several of Polacco’s books.[2] After her grandmother’s death‚ the family moved to Coral Gables‚ Florida‚ and then three years later to Oakland‚ California. Polacco’s parents had divorced when she was three‚ and she and her brother therefore spent their early life living in two places: school years with their mother in the multicultural environment of Oakland‚ CA‚ and summers with their father and his parents on a farm in Michigan. Polacco had a very difficult time in school and did not learn to
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Holy Names University is a private‚ coeducational university located in Oakland‚ California. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and is administered by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. Here at HNU the simple fact is that we the students are the beating heart and blood of the institution. We pay an extremely high cost to attend this small picturesque campus tucked away in the rolling hills of Oakland. As the heart of this body‚ we young students‚ often want things we cannot
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The album I will be reviewing today is by an Oakland girl who goes by the name of “Kehlani.” She’s been all over recently. With her mixtape titled “You Should Be Here” being nominated for a grammy‚ to her most recent studio album “SWEETSEXYSAVAGE” charting number 2 when it comes to the top r&b/hip hop albums on Billboard and 3 for Billboard 200. With this album only being out since January 27th‚ it’s doing very good. This album fits into two genres‚ pop and r&b. I personally view it more as r&b
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party. Younior’s aunt could not stand the fact that he did not eat so she secrecly brought him food. Diaz writes “She opened her pocketbook and handed me the…pastlitos.”(157) 3. Work cited Lusterman‚ Don-David. Infidelity: A Survival Guide. Oakland‚ CA: New Harbinger Publications‚ 1998.
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Anna Hyde always knew she was meant to be somewhere else. Manhattan had its beauty‚ but it never fit with her quite right. “It honestly makes me upset when I hear kids say they want to move to New York‚” she said. “It always has‚ even before rent prices went through the roof.” She sips on her bubble tea‚ her eyes wandering for the one she loved most. In two months‚ it’ll be 10 years since she first arrived in her new hometown. Some of the city’s neighborhoods were awkwardly distant from each other
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adults with different ages are encountered each day. Moreover‚ the training needs for Kaiser Permanente health care personnel are met assuming the position as medical adjunct instructor and quest speaker for a regional educational agency out of Oakland‚ CA. There is curiosity going into this course of study answering the complex relations between cultural traits and adult life skills brought to different adult learning environments. Great interests exist in these areas as there is anticipation
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Diedrich Spreckels was born on August 16th‚ 1853 in Charleston‚ South Carolina to Claus Spreckels and Anna Christina Mangels. He was the oldest of five children. The family moved to New York and then to San Francisco where he grew up. He studied at Oakland College and then in Hanover‚ Germany‚ where he studied chemistry and mechanical engineering in the Polytechnic College until 1872. In 1876 he went to the Hawaiian Islands‚ where he worked for his father’s sugar business‚ Spreckels Sugar Company.
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