The Quality Education Council meets today. See agenda and matierals here. Watch on TVW here. Hit ‘refresh’ for updates. 9:05am-9:25am State and Federal Timber Revenue — Shawn Lewis PowerPoint available here Shawn Lewis recommends the QEC send this issue to the Local Funding Work Group. 9:25am-9:55am Graduation Requirements Recommendation — Edie Harding, Kathe Taylor PowerPoint [...]
Top Dawgs: UW ranked #23 among world universities
September 21, 2010 By
Another college ranking list is out. This time, it’s the Times of London ranking the world’s top universities. The University of Washington is ranked #23. U.S. universities dominate this list. In fact, they make up the top 5 (Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Princeton University, respectively). The [...]
Ed Dept tries multi-prong approach to help kids
September 21, 2010 By
Associated Press via Education Week: Is it the family and community supports that have made the children successful? Their parents? The school? That’s the question countless studies have tried to nail down in determining how best to help students in distressed communities with perpetually failing schools. The Education Department is trying a multi-prong approach: Billion-dollar [...]
QEC to meet tomorrow
September 20, 2010 By
We have a (poster) winner!
September 20, 2010 By
Thank you for all of your submissions to our poster contest to promote our Voices from the Education Revolution speaker series featuring Kevin Johnson! We’re very happy to announce that the winning submission came from Auburn’s Dion Schell! You will start to see Dion’s poster hanging all over King County starting on Monday. Dion will [...]
Which teacher changed your life?
September 20, 2010 By
That’s the question Waiting for Superman director Davis Guggenheim answers in this little animated video. (The movie opens nationally on Oct. 1. Find out more about the Seattle buzz around the movie here.) NOTE: Bill Gates, John Legend and Davis Guggenheim will discuss the documentary today (Monday, Sept. 20) on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Check [...]
What's wrong with online learning?
September 20, 2010 By
My school district – the Issaquah School District – just decided to limit online learning. Only two credits are allowed to go towards high school graduation. Why the heck would they limit such a great opportunity for kids? I know kids who want online classes: When they have failed a class and need to retrieve [...]
Gov: 6.29% across the board cuts starting Oct. 1
September 17, 2010 By
Yesterday, the state’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council came out with it’s update for September. As expected, Washington’s revenues continue to be down, to the tune of $67.3 million less (compared to the June forecast). The decrease in revenues prompted Gov. Gregoire to issue an executive order requiring all state agencies to reduce spending by [...]
More on our new graduation requirements
September 17, 2010 By
When I started at LEV two and a half years ago, the State Board of Education’s high school graduation requirement work was in its early stages. Five months later I was on a bus to Vancouver with 40+ other education advocates, prepping to show our support for the proposed CORE 24 framework. Today, two years [...]
State board approves new graduation requirements
September 16, 2010 By
After two and a half years of meetings all across the state, thousands of hours of work by staff of the State Board of Education, OSPI and various task forces, and testimony by parents, students and education advocates from across the state, the State Board of Education just endorsed a meaningful high school diploma that [...]
