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Posts Tagged ‘education’
January 28th, 2013 - 11:45 pm § in The Ave Scene
The Seattle Teacher Strike Goes National
NEA PRESIDENT SUPPORTS SEATTLE EDUCATORS WHO REF– USE TO GIVE FLAWED STANDARDIZED TEST ***Standardized test takes away from student learning*** WASHINGTON—National Education Association (NEA) members at Garfield High School in Seattle, Wash., voted to not administer the district-mandated Mea[...]
Will Rainier Beach High School Become Seattle’s First Charter School?
While the Democrats in WASTATE have declared charter schools as heresy, the very troubled Rainier Beach High School is retasking itself as a part of the International Baccalaureate program, very much a charter school effort! Meanwhile, the leftish Seattle Education Blog disses the League of Educ[...]
March 22nd, 2011 - 1:55 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Computer Science at an Online University, Western Governors University,
Ed. Michael Stiber, a UW professor on Computer Science at Western Governors University,” has written a brief review of the offerings in Computer Science at WGU. This is important because Comp Sci, Nursing and K-12 teacher education are the three areas where WGU claims to have considerable stre[...]
Third World in America I.
A boy can’t get to school because of crumbling roads and sewage. E.J. Montoya, 16, has the well-muscled shoulders of a football player and a glossy, black braid down his back. He is a member of the Santa Ana Pueblo, one of the 22 tribes in New Mexico. On the reservation, Montoya lives with his[...]
Picardo P-Patch Enters New Era
Seattle's P-Patch community gardening program -- which has been cited as a national model -- originated here, in the boggy heartland of the former Picardo family truck farm on 25th Ave. NE in Wedgwood. The area became a pokey suburban subdivision when the family sold off their land after the War, bu[...]