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Putting on the Doggerel: Ted Stevens, the WASL, Ken Burns, and Jane Hague.
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A star rises in Eastern Washington
Whatever the prospects for Cougar football, the hard-charging person to watch in Pullman is Elson Floyd, the new president of Washington State University.
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Filling a void in the Northwest, Oregon will offer a product-design degree
With all of the innovative companies headquartered here, it's about time a university started training the region's own students in the fine art of making a product work well and look good.
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The Northwest Passage: mission accomplished
A 500-year-old dream that shaped the Pacific Northwest has finally been realized, thanks to global warming. So let's toast the past before fighting about the future of the Arctic.
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How to fix Washington's graduation standards
Test scores are up, but there still are many public-school students who graduate unprepared for college or the workforce. And the WASL test requirement is not really enforced. A co-author of the 1993 law that was intended to reform the system explains how to get standards-based education back on tra