By Katy Murphy Hundreds of people flooded the Oakland Technical High School auditorium in North Oakland on Wednesday night to urge the school board not to shut down more than a dozen schools just to save money. They didn't have to say a word.

By Katy Murphy OAKLAND -- Hundreds of people flooded the Oakland Technical High School auditorium in North Oakland on Wednesday night to urge the school board not to shut down more than a dozen schools just to save money. They didn't have to say a word.

By Katy Murphy EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a sampling of the Education Report, Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools. Read more and post comments at www.ibabuzz.com/education. Oct.

By Katy Murphy OAKLAND -- A movement to improve education in the city's poorest neighborhoods through the creation of small schools has been largely successful, Stanford University professor Linda Darling-Hammond told the Oakland school board -- which commissioned the research -- this week.

By Katy Murphy Last school year, about 60 percent of Oakland 10th-graders passed the math or the English portion of the California High School Exit Exam -- or both -- on their first try, according to results released Tuesday by the state education department.