Crosscurrents

An update on City College of San Francisco, Nanette Asimov on how CCSF got to where it is today, students at San Francisco State talk about how the budget cuts are affecting them, California's education Master Plan, and local musicians RocketShip-RocketShip.

The final diary entry of a first-year high school teacher, high school student commentaries on the importance of music in their lives, Will Durst on the NSA, the Audiograph answer of the week, and local musicians The Cottontails.

Diana Diaries, Part 3: Final lessons of teaching in Oakland; Commentary: Student recalls how she found the courage to be herself; San Francisco Chronicle reporter Nanette Asimov's Favorite Teacher; Jazz Perspective: Catherine Russell; and local band The Americano Social Club.

Part 2 in the diaries of a first-year high school teacher in Oakland, a high school commentary on lack of female authors in English curricula, artillery relics in the Marin Headlands, and local musician Teja Gerken.

Diana Diaries, Part 1: A lesson in teaching from a first-time instructor; The road ahead for Oakland schools, according to outgoing Superintendent; and local blues band Crosscut.

Oakland restaurateur looks back on recession; The good, the bad, and the ugly of the Bay Bridge; Meet the woman behind the new Peninsula Museum of Art; Audiograph's Sound of the Week Revealed! and local musicians ZOFO Duet.

A special Crosscurrents from Mills College: not being able to afford to move away from violent neighborhoods, a family restaurant is a pillar of the neighborhood, and an African-American church adapts to its changing neighborhood. Plus local musicians The American Nomad.

Stanford fellow tracks Nigerian government files online; Grow your own farm-fresh wardrobe; Youth Radio: Rethinking fashion after Bangladesh; and Bay Area a cappella choir The Pacific Mozart Ensemble.

A special on Oakland's Fruitvale/San Antonio district: Met West High School has its students do internships to graduate, a dating abuse program for middle schoolers, the Oakland School of the Arts, and local musicians Mad Noise.

It takes a village: when special ed works; San Francisco's only free and democratic Conservatory of Music; this week's Audiograph answer revealed!; and local singer Meredith Axelrod.