School districts are being pressed to find students from low-income backgrounds who may be academically gifted but overlooked for accelerated classes. And they’ll have double...
In Washington and across the country, students of color, as a group, start out behind in school, and rarely catch up. We’re starting a conversation...
Got thoughts about school discipline? Olympia wants you to weigh in on a set of new proposed rules. Foremost among them: more connection between families,...
Sarah Ziker, a tutor at Seattle’s West Seattle High, works in that school’s freshman-support program, and says her job involves much more than academics.
As research increasingly shows that ninth grade is a make-or-break year, educators around Puget Sound are reinventing the freshman experience to help all students early...
The Highline district is pursuing the 'grow your own' idea: helping instructional aides become full-fledged teachers — and guiding current students toward teaching careers.
Trauma-informed education is spreading from alternative high schools to comprehensive ones, and it’s not always an easy fit.
Education policy advocates celebrated the elimination of formulas that rewarded affluent school districts in Washington state. But reforms to that system may recreate the exact...
Seattle's Leschi Elementary just finished its second year of a blended Montessori-contemporary program supporting racial balance a unified school community. So far, it seems to...
A new study suggests American adults tend to view black girls as less innocent and more adultlike than their white peers, a bias that may...
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