“Of the whole McCleary debate, the biggest issue is compensation,” said Chris Vance, former chair of Republican Party. The Seattle Times interactive chart (left) shows some of the problem caused by our not having Charter Schools. What is striking is that these are very HIGH salaries for a job th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Schools’
May 4th, 2015 - 10:28 pm § in Misc.
Should Poor Kids’ Families Move to Seattle?
“The (study)concluded that children who moved before they were teenagers did indeed benefit economically.” A large new study reported by the NY Times has surprising praise for us. Seattle, King County and especially Snohomish County are great places for poor kids to grow up! .[...]
March 16th, 2015 - 12:09 pm § in Schools & Colleges
How to Close The Ethnic Gap In Colleges
Northwestern University Reports Progress in Psychology & Sociology A strategy that narrows academic achievement gap by 63 percent New research from Northwestern and Stanford universities suggests that a novel one-hour intervention, exploring awareness of social class, reduced the persist[...]
Reuven Carlyle: A Thought Filled Analysis of Education in WASTATE
Rethinking Public School Funding: Back To A New Future. The Washington State Constitution crafted in 1889 includes these mighty words in Article IV, section 1: “It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders, without [...]
Why Seattle NEEDS Charter Schools: Parents NEED Choice
A story from the tiny Center School at Seattle Center illustrates how badly the District can hurt kids by top down, arrogant, centralized management. In 2o13 the Seattle School District decided to censor the teachings of a popular Center School teacher, Jon Greenberg. Mr. Greenberg’s proble[...]
January 13th, 2015 - 1:18 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Abuse of the GED
Elizabeth Hanson from The Restore GED Fairness Site. In March of 2014 I realized how bad the Pearson Vue GED was and started this website in response, a quest for GED fairness. There are overlaps of information or “coincidences” among the Pearson Vue GED, Common Core and what I have been studyin[...]
December 22nd, 2014 - 5:21 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
BLACK AMERICA: Who chooses the schools?
This bothers me a lot more than the color of the skin in a police officer’s uniform. Too often I hear well-meaning lace curtain liberals, white and black, telling black parents what is best for their kids. Education is not a way out of the current occupation of black America, its is the only[...]
December 14th, 2014 - 1:09 pm § in Misc.
Netflix Executive, Reed Hastings, Explains Charter Schools
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December 11th, 2014 - 10:04 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Is A University Education Basic?
UW Prof: It is interesting to speculate about whether higher education could be considered a subset of Washington state government’s “paramount duty… (WASTATE’s constitution requires) the state “to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within [...]
Time for real progress