Guest essay: How the right approach to math can reduce the achievement gap
A longtime advanced-math teacher at Ballard High School says there's a simple way to improve math performance among all students and narrow achievement gaps at...
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Bring your questions about teacher diversity in Washington schools to the second annual #EducationSoWhite
To really understand what it means to have a teacher who looks like you in front of the classroom, bring your questions to Town Hall's...
Charter schools, despite ongoing legal questions, attract the families they hoped to get
Though they are too new to have a solid track record, operate under a cloud of legal uncertainty and often exist only in portable classrooms,...
How would three Washington educators reinvent public schools to help all students? ‘Equality is not equity’
The Washington state schools chief, a UW professor and fourth-grade teacher from Seattle imagine how they would reinvent public schools to support more than just...
Washington state lawmakers consider universal screening to find gifted students
While legislators debate a law that would require testing all students for high intelligence, the Northshore School District is doing exactly that, and finding high...
Guest essay: ‘Until we address the teacher expectation gap, the student achievement gap will remain’
Preston Hampton, a Seattle Public Schools graduate, recalls what it was like attending a junior-high school where his principal lamented a growing racial gap on...
5 questions Reddit users asked us about gifted education in Washington
Last week, Education Lab took questions about accelerated classrooms on the r/SeattleWA Reddit page. Here are some of the answers.
The push to find more gifted kids: What Washington can learn from Miami’s wins VIEW
Miami unapologetically uses two standards to identify gifted students — one for low-income kids and English-learners, another for everyone else. As a result, its advanced-learning...
Find gifted students where you have not looked before, state tells schools
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...
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