ALAMEDA — Amelia Earhart would have thought the crisp air and cloudless sky over Bay Farm Island on Tuesday made for perfect flying weather. But the students at Amelia Earhart Elementary School ...

I taught at Jordan Junior High for 25 years before transferring to Burroughs when the BUSD reconfigured and Jordan became a middle school.

July 24, 1897: A 20th Century Childhood Amelia Mary Earhart is born in Atchison, Kansas, to parents Amy Otis and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Muriel, is born two years later.

Amelia Earhart had already established herself as an American icon when she vanished over the Pacific in 1937 — and promising new sonar images of what may be her plane has interest in her ...

Earhart, born July 24, 1897, left Chicago soon after her high school graduation, but she made a triumphant return to the city in 1928 just after her historic trip across the Atlantic Ocean.