Sentences with phrase «seattle times education»

«They've started to teach students about feelings as explicitly as they teach math and reading,» writes Seattle Times education reporter John Higgins.

Not exact matches

I lived south of Seattle and spent considerable time with John in his school system, meeting teachers and principals and assessing the «culture» of public education.

Education: Too Much Focus on Testing (Seattle Times) Mentions Daniel Koretz's book, The Testing Charade, which explains why high - stakes policies such as graduation tests lead to score inflation.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in 1957.

Earlier this year, the district negotiated a historic, five - year contract with the Seattle Education Association that creates for the first time a framework for providing special support for staff members who work at schools with high student turnover.

Five teachers will become full - time employees at the U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C.; one will work full - time in the department's Seattle regional office; and six will remain in their classrooms and participate on a part - time basis.

Claudia Rowe, an investigative reporter and education writer with the Seattle Times.

Lawmakers want federal special education site restored - USA Today ow.ly / Q45V308YOkE Advocates of disabled students closely watching Betsy DeVos The Seattle Times ow.ly / 8jLQ308YzPz San Diego school board yanks invite -LSB-...]

Still, in these budget crunched times, citizens have been dismayed that the board, led by former Superintendent Larry Nyland, would reject a quarter of a million dollars for democracy education across all neighborhoods and schools in Seattle.

Panelist Claudia Rowe, an education reporter for the Seattle Times, said the response from teachers when schools in her school district began using restorative justice hasn't been so positive.

The Seattle Times ran an important front page article today on the current election in the Seattle Education Association (SEA), «Politics plays role in teachers union vote for president».

Gary Rubinstein: Why I did TFA and Why You Shouldn't Owen Davis: Teach for America Apostates: a Primer of Alumni Resistance Jesse Hagopian: Seattle Public Schools should avoid «Teach for Awhile» program Alex Caputo - Pearl: Teach for America Shows the Downside of Quick Fixes in Education Camika Royal: Swift to Hear; Slow to Speak: A Message to TFA Teachers, Critics, and Education Reformers True Confessions of a TFA Dropout Julian Vasquez Heilig: Teach for America: Feel - good Spin vs. Dose of Reality From a Corps Member Why I'm Quitting TFA The Atlantic: I Quit Teach for America Jameson Brewer: Hyper - accountability, Burnout and Blame: A Former TFA Corps Member Speaks Out Matt Barnum: It's Time for Teach for America to Fold — former TFAer Noam Hassenfeld: This Former TFA Corps Members Thinks You Should Join City Year Instead

Five teachers will become full - time employees at Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C., one will work full - time in the department's Seattle regional office, and six will remain in their classrooms and participate on a part - time basis.

In addition, she has trained animal actors, written for The Clicker Journal and the Seattle Times, consulted with Guide Dogs for the Blind and with Susquehanna Service Dogs, served as a subject - matter expert for the Delta Society's «Service Dog Education System» and taught at the Instructor Training Courses hosted by Dogs of Course.

This full - time position requires an individual to be responsible for assisting the Education Coordinator with implementing and managing Seattle Humane's educational programs for children, teens and adults.

She is also a full - time faculty member at North Seattle College where she teaches parent education classes to families raising children birth - 5 years.

That decision held that Washington is underfunding public education by billions of dollars, according to The Seattle Times.