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The Berkeley Wire: 3.5.10
BHS soccer in semifinal tussle
If you want to haul over to Concord this evening, you’ll be able to cheer on the Berkeley High boys varsity soccer team in an NCS semifinal match against number one ranked De La Salle.
The Jackets entered the tournament as league champions and ranked fourth. They won their first round match against College Park 2-0, [...]
BHS suspends doped cookie student
Berkeley High parents received an email late last night that suggests that the school’s administration is putting its laissez-faire reputation behind it:
Recently two students walking across the BHS upper courtyard saw another student with a container of cookies and asked for one. After eating the cookie both students became ill enough to require medical attention. [...]
Class sizes at BHS
Three Berkeley High science teachers have done an analysis of class sizes at the school. It’s an attempt to inject facts into the debate around struggling students at BHS, and whether cutting science lab time is an effective way to close the achievement gap at the school.
Part of the undercurrent in the debate is the [...]
The real coach Carter
Berkeley High football coach Alonzo Carter recently announced he had taken the head football post at Contra Costa College in San Pablo. In his three years at BHS, Carter’s teams went 25-8-1 while taking three ACCAL titles.
But it isn’t just the winning record that seems to set coach Carter apart. Reader Paul Lecky sent Berkeleyside [...]
Hats off to Doggie High
Doggie High, a diner across the street from Berkeley High School, donated half of its recent proceeds to a fund set up by the school to raise money for Haiti.
This is particularly laudable for a local business which recently reported that it was struggling and might have to close down. Doggie High owner Vincent Trahan, head coach [...]
L.A. Times reports on BHS science lab issue
In case you missed it, the Los Angeles Times ran a feature story yesterday on the ongoing science lab debate at Berkeley High School.
It kicks off with this context information:
In the last school year, 82% of Berkeley’s AP chemistry students passed the rigorous exam, which gives college credit for high school work. The national passing [...]
Where does Berkeley High rank?
When Newsweek did its annual ranking of the nation’s top high schools, Berkeley High did very well — 271st out of tens of thousands of public schools. Now US News and World Report has jumped into the high school ranking fray, analyzing data from more than 21,000 public high schools “to find the very best”.
So [...]
Saving Berkeley High’s Old Gymnasium: A proposal
Berkeleyside exclusive: The Old Gymnasium on the Berkeley High School campus, a landmarked building originally designed by William Hays, has fallen into disrepair — see slideshow above — and the School District is suggesting it be demolished. Noted Berkeley architect Henrik Bull has a different suggestion:
It is easy to understand why the School Board of [...]
Next on the BHS agenda: Meeting superintendent
The controversy over the proposed elimination of 0 and 7th period science labs at Berkeley High has brought the school’s governance issues into the spotlight. Berkeley Unified School District Superintendent Bill Huyett will attend a meeting with parents next Tuesday, January 19, to both explain his views and to solicit feedback.
Here’s the announcement from the [...]
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