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Co-director of the Mosaic Journalism Program, formerly with Chalkbeat and the Mercury News. Dog lover, hiker, imperfect meditator, evolving cook.

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Sharon Noguchi covers K-12 education, kids, teens and parenting for newspapers in the Bay Area News Group. She's written about math phobia, charter-school wars and teen cheating. She also has investigated how a sexual predator was allowed to work at a popular science camp, how schools deal with mental illness among students and how credential programs fail to adequately train teachers.
Previously, Sharon has covered local government, written editorials and columns, written an Asian food colum…

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Teen health: Depression, anxiety and social phobias rising in kids, educators say

Teen health: Depression, anxiety and social phobias rising in kids, educators say

Posted: 02/05/2014 10:07:42 PM PST Updated: 02/07/2014 05:36:12 PM PST A popular and accomplished Los Altos H…

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Walden West: 'Papa Bear' on feds' radar 7 months or more

Walden West: 'Papa Bear' on feds' radar 7 months or more

Posted: 07/21/2015 05:56:48 AM PDT Updated: 07/21/2015 06:08:59 AM PDT Long before Edgar Covarrubias Padilla …

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Hard Work, Furtive Living: Illegal Immigrants In Japan

Hard Work, Furtive Living: Illegal Immigrants In Japan

Japan needs, but does not welcome, migrant help TOKYO: A ski cap pulled low to conceal her wavy brown hair, L…

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Rocketship Education changes course, slows expansion

Rocketship Education changes course, slows expansion

Posted: 06/28/2014 07:02:05 PM PDT Updated: 06/29/2014 06:23:08 AM PDT SAN JOSE -- Rocketship Education shot …

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Goodbye textbooks, hello free online resources

Goodbye textbooks, hello free online resources

Posted: 01/30/2015 04:33:59 PM PST Updated: 02/13/2015 05:05:22 PM PST Click photo to enlarge SETTING THE REC…

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You can make a Japanese meal in a half-hour

You can make a Japanese meal in a half-hour

By Sharon NoguchiMercury News Posted: 03/07/2007 02:24:17 PM PST Updated: 04/24/2007 11:27:30 AM PDT My daugh…

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Opinion: How Cubberley reshaped school - and us

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By Sharon Noguchi
| Palo Alto Weekly
In spring of my junior year of high school, students alarmed at growing ecological crises proposed a novel idea: cancel classes and offer to the entire school student-planned seminars, films, speakers and field trips on saving the environment. Cubberley High School’s faculty and administration said yes. So our 1,250 students could choose to watch Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” listen to population biologist Paul Ehrlich, visit the model of the bay in Sausalito or sample dozens of other options.
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Teachers may get 3% raise in Indianapolis Public Schools

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By Sharon Noguchi
| Chalkbeat Indiana
Teachers could get an average 3% raise this school year and another 3% in 2022-’23, based on a tentative agreement their union has reached with Indianapolis Public Schools. The district board heard a summary Thursday of the proposed pact with the teachers union. Later in the evening the board approved a separate agreement that will award support staff a 2% raise this year.
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IPS erases $18 million deficit — but needs to keep cutting

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By Sharon Noguchi
| Chalkbeat Indiana
Indianapolis Public Schools has eliminated an $18 million deficit that it had projected for this school year, Superintendent Aleesia Johnson said. While she doesn’t anticipate closing any schools by next fall, she warned the district must continue to cut costs to avoid falling into the red.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. And I still have my portable Royal. I hauled at 20 lbs of it around Cambodia 30 years ago.

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With a succinct, timely, thorough and to-the-point email.

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