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RSS Feeds Get the latest information through RSS Feeds. Blog Articles News College & Work Readiness What is RSS? Most Recent Resources Ladies and Gentleman, the Washington Class of 2008 Added: 4 weeks 4 days ago Article April Update Added: 10 weeks 2 days ago Article Creating a College-Going Culture Added: 17 weeks 2 days ago Article Teaching Science Teachers to be Leaders Added: 22 weeks 19 hours ago Article Senate Hearing to Delay Reading as a Requirement for the K-12 Diploma to be Held on Monday Added: 24 weeks 20 hours ago Article Find More Resources >>	Students Gen Y Talks Ed By maureen on 01 Jul \| 0 comments A couple of weeks ago, I discovered an ed blog that has become a bit of a fascination for me. Written by an as yet anonymous 21 year-old member of Generation Y (or the Millennials, pick your poison), Urban Angle takes cold, hard look at education reform from the standpoint of an individual just a few years out of the system. Well-informed and eloquent, the author seeks to situate the effects of current ed policy in terms of what has and what hasn’t worked in urban schools. On the importance of leadership in schools: Read more... Topics: Students \| K-12 Education Reform \| Planting the teaching seed By maureen on 27 Jun \| 0 comments It seems like we wring our hands constantly about teacher shortages. Well, it’s Friday and my hands are tired. Fortunately, Heritage University has created a program that gives Eastern Washington high school students who aspire to be teachers a chance to gain experience. Read more... Topics: Teacher Training \| Students \| Hats off to AVID students and Heritage High School By maureen on 12 Jun \| 0 comments We’ve blogged about the success of the AVID program (which provides a college prep curriculum to students that may not see a clear path to higher ed) before, but I was especially pleased to learn this week about the opportunities the program is providing for 11^th-graders at Heritage High School in Vancouver. Read more... Topics: Students \| Fun In The Classroom \| College & Work Readiness \| Higher standards in math can help fill jobs here Posted on 12 Jun The News Tribune View this article >> Topics: College & Work Readiness \| K-12 Education Reform \| Math \| Students \| It’s 13 not 37. By allisonm on 10 Jun \| 0 comments This just annoyed me. The headline for this article in the Wenatchee World reads: WASL stops 37 Wenatchee seniors from graduating. But read a little further and the article goes on to say that of those 37 seniors, 24 wouldn’t have graduated anyway due to lack of credits. That leaves only 13. Well, two can play at this game. Read more... Topics: WASL \| Students \| K-12 Education Reform \| Graduation Rates \| Ladies and Gentleman, the Washington Class of 2008 Posted on 02 Jun \| 0 comments Just like the tagline of a cinema epic, the road forged by the class of 2008 has been a groundbreaking one, more than a decade in the making. Topics: WASL \| Teacher Training \| Students \| Standardized Tests \| Math Teachers \| Math Curriculum \| Math \| Type: Article I see the light! By allisonm on 23 May \| 0 comments How many researchers does it take to screw in the ed reform light bulb? Quite a few, it seems. A new study of Philadelphia high schools finds that their high school freshmen are more likely to be taught by inexperienced, uncredentialed teachers than their upper-grade peers. And students taking at least two classes taught by these teachers miss an average of two more school days a year than peers with more-qualified teachers. Read more... Topics: K-12 Education Reform \| Students \| Teachers \| Students become authors for a day Posted on 23 May The Bellingham Herald View this article >> Topics: Reading \| Students \| Writing \| The Middle School Years By kathleen on 31 Mar \| 1 comment Ah, middle school. .. two words that immediately evoke memories of acne, turbulent friendships and first crushes. A place where delicate emotions and hormones are the law of the land. As a middle school student, I was too busy juggling the ever-changing social dynamics taking place to make my academic success a true priority. Read more... Topics: Dropout Rates \| Students \| Teachers \| DIY Practice for the SAT By maureen on 26 Mar \| 0 comments I remember SAT season like it was yesterday: The mind-numbing sentence drills. The memorization of supposed “testing tricks.” Words like “sarcophagus.” All wedged into 10 Saturday morning classroom sessions that ticked like a fatal countdown until test day. Frankly, I wish I had been more invested in the process—or even close to as innovative in my practice as a group of students at Miami Springs High School. Read more... Topics: Students \| College & Work Readiness \| 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9…next ›last »	Recent News Wenatchee not willing to use early WASL results for comparisons Posted on 02 Jul Wenatchee World View this article >> More districts experiment with ways to pay teachers Posted on 02 Jul Washington Post View this article >> Seattle initiative aims to revive schools Posted on 02 Jul Seattle Post-Intelligencer View this article >> Find More News >> Tag Cloud Achievement Gap College & Work Readiness Graduation Rates Legislature Math Math Curriculum Science Standardized Tests Students Teachers Washington WASL more tags What is a Tag Cloud?