It’s hard to get what you want if you don’t know what you want. For instance, a job seeker who recently contacted Robert Half opened his cover letter with an odd request: “Please read this letter and then let me know where I would fit in best in your organization.” How many hiring managers will have the time or inclination to do this applicant’s work for him? I suspect none. Read More

Hard to believe it, but it’s April and time again for our students to take the California Standardized Testing and Reporting tests. Teachers and education officials use the results of STAR tests to identify individual student progress, as well as trends in how well groups of students are learning the standards in order to improve educational programs. Read More

This week’s question comes from Sarah C. in Daly City: Read More

As the legal status of gay families is debated nationally, I assure you that here in the San Francisco Unified School District, we continue to see all families as equally important and celebrate that our families come in all forms. Last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy talked about the fact that as many as 40,000 children in California live with same-sex parents, and he posed that children may be adversely affected by their parents not being allowed to marry. Read More