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'Superman' paints education picture, but does it have answers?
Davis Guggenheim shows what parents know: Something has to be done. But how?
Dick Lilly
Dick Lilly is a former Seattle Times reporter who covered Seattle neighborhoods, City Hall and public schools during 14-years with the paper. From 1999 until his retirement in 2015, he worked for Seat
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Make teachers accountable for their own test scores
Teachers today face subject-matter tests only as they begin their careers, and testing is not nearly rigorous enough.
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Reading goals in public schools: So general they don't work
Seattle Public Schools say all students should read at grade level by the end of third grade. But teachers need to pay attention to each student, not only the group as a whole.
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Best of 2009: Here's what schools accountability looks like
It's time to put some teeth into one of education's over-used buzzwords. What's needed are proper testing and real consequences for failure.
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Dorn's delay
State Schools Superintendent Randy Dorn's idea to postpone requiring math and science tests for high school graduation may be a good first sign that the state can move away from the WASL as a measure of achievement and focus on rigorous course content instead.