The goals are great, as are the resources. But the new focus risks perpetuating some problems with testing and misses a chance to do more with poor kids in early grades.
Don't just tweak the tests, advises this former Seattle School Board member. The new state schools chief should shift dramatically to a more content-based tests.
When it comes to problems with our schools, there's a lot more insight in Robert Jamieson's Thursday column than in the school district's curriculum audit by consultants Phi Delta Kappa International...
Never one to let his sense of charity get in the way of his competitive spirit, our correspondent matches another UW donor's efforts to call the shots on campus.
Professional shows have understudies, sometimes great ones, and that's how we got Shirley MacLaine. But they're making a practice of it with the run of the Tony-winning Jersey Boys road production.
When the phone rang this afternoon and this fulsome, cheery, pre-recorded male voice started talking at me, I thought it was another solicitation from some unctuous politician seeking my cash. But in...
