U.N. Experts Seem Horrified By How American Schools Treat Black Children READED THE FULL ARTICE BT Rebecca KleinEducation Editor, The Huffington Post American schools are hotbeds for racial discrimination, according to a preliminary report from a group of United Nations experts. The U.N.’s Wo[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Schools’
January 26th, 2016 - 6:48 pm § in Misc.
Seattle Public Schools Close Programs
For almost 25 years, The Wells Middle College High School has been a joint effort of the UW and the Seattle Public Schools, giving disenfranchised students a different, personalized and highly successful education through a curriculum based on social justice and a critical pedagogy. Apparently[...]
January 4th, 2016 - 1:33 pm § in Misc.
WASTATE Teachers well paid/ Why pay them MORE then any other profession?
So why does the governor want to raise their pay by $20,000 when our teachers are now paid well above almost every other graduates of the UW? UNIONS[...]
October 26th, 2015 - 9:32 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Should British universities grade students using an American-style system?
Going for that 4.25! Britain has a very weird system … probably not even understood by anyone there since it was created around the same time as the war of 1812. Britain, of course won that war. Actually, if there is a change, the new system will not effect Oxford and Cambridge .. A spokesm[...]
October 21st, 2015 - 3:54 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Academic Free Speach
THE BLAZE: College Professor Writes Column Confessing Her ‘Hate’ for Republicans — University of Michigan supports her right of free speech. Communications professor Susan Douglas wrote a column titled “We Can’t All Just Get Along.” She said, “In our era of polarization, one par[...]
August 24th, 2015 - 10:14 am § in Misc.
Core Curricuum: Scrapping History??
Curriculum focus on core skills NATASHA BITA History and geography will be scrapped as separate subjects in the new national primary curriculum.[...]
August 2nd, 2015 - 8:13 am § in Misc.
An Endorsment for School Board: Steve Sundquist
Since Seattle is overwhelmingly a city of the childless, why vote for anyone? In a city where we have become increasingly all white (the most white city in the US!) , these jobs seem to go to activists who have no kids of their own but are all too willing to tell others how THEIR […][...]
July 11th, 2015 - 8:52 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Will WASTATE Supreme Court Find The Legislature in Contempt?
FACEBOOK Gerry Pollet I expect our Supreme Court will agree that class sizes count, and delaying reducing class sizes above 3rd grade denies a generation of their right to educational opportunity. And, same for improving teacher pay, of which Court said: nothing is more basic to basic education tha[...]
June 16th, 2015 - 1:21 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
What $21,000 in Tuition Can Buy
“We’ve literally built an operating system for a 21st century school system,” says AltSchool’s founder. (Excerpted from Bloomberg Business, by Adam Satariano) Former Google executive Max Ventilla with $133 million from venture capitalists and Mark Zuckerberg has started a for-profit, $[...]
May 19th, 2015 - 1:26 am § in Misc.
The American Federation of Teachers Asks for Sympathy For Teachers
Dear Stephen, Every day, educators are making a difference in children’s lives—and they do it despite staggering obstacles. Recently, the AFT collaborated with the Badass Teachers Association to survey educators on how their working conditions affect them, and the results show that the obstacles[...]