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...
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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...
Student Voices: The college admissions process was dizzying for me, so I decided to research why.
Senior Haley Keizur, who attends Puyallup High School, argues for students, teachers, parents and college-admissions officers to find the balance between enough stress and too...
Guest essay: Why math majors should take creative writing — and vice versa
We cannot paste a series of different classes together in a four-year plan and call that education “interdisciplinary,” argues Julie Van, a recent graduate of...
Guest essay: 3 ways to recruit more teachers in Washington
Tom James, who taught in Washington state for 24 years, shares the new perspective he has on teacher shortages since moving to Hawaii two years...
Guest essay: Social-emotional skills should be part of every lesson
‘If we don’t teach to the heart, we will never reach the mind,’ says Lyon Terry, Washington state’s Teacher of the Year in 2015.
Student Voices: My class talked with a Trump supporter. Here’s what I learned.
Olivia Capestany, now a senior at Seattle’s Roosevelt High, writes about the need for more political tolerance at her high school.
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