Guest essay: We need to stop gatekeeping advanced classes
We will always have at least one thing in common: the desire to support our community’s children and give every student the chance to succeed....
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Student Voices: Why all kids need to learn computer science
The biggest reward of learning computer science for Issaquah student Hallie Chen was computational thinking, or breaking down problems into segments to solve one at...
Student Voices: The stories missing from our history books and textbooks
Stories are what stick and enable us to make connections to the work we do. That's why every student should take a class on storytelling,...
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.
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...
We dated in high school — but when I went to college, he became homeless | Student Voices
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...
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