Garfield Incident Updates
From the Seattle Times, SPD are talking to six GHS students about the Garfield hazing event. No arrests have been made and SPD will contact the parents of the students. In the comments section, there were some more details (wild ones) about this incident. It is clear that like Rashomon, it depends on who you are, where you were and what you saw.I have requested the SPD police report on this inc
From The Onion: Civics Lesson for Congress
With lawmakers still at an impasse over increasing the debt ceiling, a special team of 40 eighth-grade civics teachers was air-dropped into Washington earlier today in a last-ditch effort to teach congressional leaders how the government’s legislative process works. “We started them off with the basics, like the difference between a senator and a representative, and then moved on to more complex c
Education News Roundup
Dual-language in Washington State - a view from Seattle Globalist.A MacArthur Genius award went to an educational researcher, Angela Duckworth. From Ed Week:Educational research psychologist and former teacher Angela Duckworth has devoted her career to understanding traits beyond IQ or test-taking abilities that predict a student's success— including grit and self-control. It is perhaps her own p
10-1-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadInteresting six-part series on math in the NY Times, Me, Myself and Math.Oh those kids! Looks like LA high school students found it quite easy to hack into their new school-issued iPads.One week after students started receiving their iPads, students attending at least three Los Angeles high schools had figured out how to disarm a built-in securit