Archive | 15. Oct, 2009
It’s all about completion!

It’s all about completion!

Your chances of  completing a degree with an economic value in Washington State are about to go up thanks to the Washington State Community and Technical Colleges Student Completion Initiative. Yesterday the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced more than $6.1 million in investments from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Ford Foundation [...]

Provocative report on Seattle Public Schools released

Last night, the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington DC based research non-profit, released a large study on the current state of teaching in the Seattle Public Schools, done at the request of the local Alliance for Education . A presentation of the study at Seattle University, attended mostly by activists, teachers, and school [...]