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...
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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. This is...
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...
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...
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