The Seattle City Council wants your advice and ideas on key issues, including education, facing the city. You can voice your opinion at upcoming Town Hall Meetings on major city issues. Topics for the meetings include: How can we best address the challenge of youth violence? What can the City do to help ensure that Seattle’s public schools [...]
Send a child to college for free
June 10, 2009 By
Our future as a state and nation depends on our children receiving the education and job training they need to succeed in life. With only 17 out of 100 9th graders earning a college diploma, all of us have a responsibility to help every child. Now, it could be as easy as FORWARDING this information [...]
Wonky words: Transforming math & science
June 10, 2009 By
Given Kelly’s post earlier this week, the release of this report by the Carnegie Corporation of New York is quite fortuitous. In it, Carnegie exams math and science education in the United States, finds it underwhelming and recommends a “mobilization plan.” The plan: Higher levels of math and science for all American students. Common standards in math [...]
News from the Feds: Home visitation on the move
June 10, 2009 By
The Feds are hard at work and our Washington delegation is showing serious leadership for children. Earlier this week Chairman Jim McDermott, joined by Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) and Rep. Todd Platts (R-PA), today introduced the Early Support for Families Act. This act will implement the home visitation initiative proposed by President Obama as part [...]
Are you as concerned about math as I am?
June 8, 2009 By
I have three children; all have the potential to be very good at whatever they apply themselves to. When they were in kindergarten I believed they could be anything they wanted to be. I still believe that they could be whatever they wanted to be. But they don’t. Somewhere along the line they each decided [...]
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June 5, 2009 By
Send a child to college for free
June 4, 2009 By
Our future as a state and nation depends on our children receiving the education and job training they need to succeed in life. With only 17 out of 100 9th graders earning a college diploma, all of us have a responsibility to help every child. Now, it could be as easy as FORWARDING this message [...]
Districts face ~9% cuts in FY09-10 budgets
June 2, 2009 By
Some of us have been wondering aloud how the 2009-11 budget impacts each district. Finally, we have an idea. Thanks to numbers crunched largely by OSPI, we’ve compiled two docs showing the projected loss each district is facing for fiscal year 2009-10 (district fiscal years run September-August, rather than July-June). One doc lists the districts [...]
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June 1, 2009 By
Awards given out but are pink slips next?: Local school employees dominate at statewide awards program Texting is the new note passing: Students Crave a Break on Cellphone Ban Mistakes uncovered in “Discovering Math” books: Seattle Schools’ “Discovering Math” curriculum risks a generation of students Seattle’s Summit K-12 says goodbye: Alums, teachers say goodbye to [...]
