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...
From top: The view east across Lake Washington from Seattle at Interstate 90 (right), with Bellevue in the distance (upper left); Foster Island in the Arboretum; and the view looking up Sammamish...
From top: The lovely path north of Seward Park in Seattle, right along Lake Washington; the Boeing plant in Renton, seen from across the lake; new construction sweeps away old industrial artifacts on...
From top: The author sets out in Kirkland; in solitude, looking out at Lake Washington from a bench in Wetherill Nature Preserve; and the view at Enatai Beach Park.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that race cannot be used as a factor in assigning students to schools, family income is likely to play a big role in the Seattle district – in determining...
'Choice' competes with 'predictability' in a proposed new plan for assigning students to buildings. And a former School Board member and journalist thinks choice, the status quo, will probably win.
