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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

5-20-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

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Map of Testing Across the Country
Testing Landscape via Education Week


Tuesday Open Thread
  From SPS:The Source will be unavailable on Friday, May 23rd from 5:00pm - Tuesday, May 27th 6:00am for maintenance. This planned outage is required to upgrade PowerSchool to a newer version and improve performance and reliability. We apologize for any inconvenience. What field are incoming UW freshmen picking when they pick Engineering?  Number one (hugely) is Computer Science.  What's on your m

Spectrum is Dead
A reader sent in this letter - from View Ridge's principal, Terri Skjei - and frankly, it's all I need to believe that Spectrum is dead. But the letter also makes me wonder about this slow death. What is the point? A few thoughts on the contents:1) quite calm and thoughtful, almost the epitome of "we want your input" except that there really is no need to give any. The fix is in.2) The p
5-19-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Stats on People Who Pushing Making Money Off Public SchoolsFrom Diane Ravitch:  The trade journal Alpha recently reported that the hedge fund industry’s top 25 earners collected $21.15 billion, a whopping 50 percent over their total the year before.A hedge fund manager in 2013 needed to take in $300 million just to make the top 25. Ten years ago, in 2004, an aspiri