Student Voices: We need to talk about race in school, and we need to do it before college
"Critical education about race and its role in our society shouldn’t be an elective," writes Danielle Derrickson, a recent graduate of UW Tacoma.
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Student Voices: We shouldn’t eliminate gifted classrooms. We should make them equitable.
General education was not meeting Millan Philipose's learning needs. Now a student at Garfield High School, he didn't love school until he entered a gifted...
Student Voices: Colleges, please don’t look at freshman-year grades
"Freshmen often enter high school with no idea what they plan to do there, or no intention to be there at all. It is incumbent...
Guest essay: Teaching For Black Lives book presents ideas for empowering marginalized students
Teaching for Black Lives, a teaching manual compiled by three educators in the Pacific Northwest, offers some suggestions for solutions to raising the achievement and...
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Clay and I were a lot alike in high school, but when we parted ways for college, our lives went dramatically different directions.
Meet the students writing about education and housing insecurity in Washington
Over the next school year, these 14 students will work with Seattle Times staff to produce their own original reporting on the issues that impact...
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...
Guest essay: When will we stop teaching kids to memorize math?
“Many kids either don’t understand the meaning of the math or won’t until much later, when they have already been branded as poor in math,”...
Student Voices: We need to invest more in future business leaders of color
Abel Berhan, a senior at Evergreen High School in the Highline School District, says the lack of diversity in the business world can be intimidating...
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...
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