Common Core; Who Knew?
Polling. Our country loves this stuff. Naturally, for anyone who has taken a decent high school civics class (or sociology/poly sci course in college), we all know to take polling with a grain of salt. Depends on who does it, who paid for it (not always the same) and, most of all, the shaping of the questions. Nowhere is this more visible than in polling around Common Core. The most hilarious p
I Must Be Blind
I must be blind because I can't see what the Seattle Times editorial board sees when they look at the legislature's response to the McCleary decision.They say that the McCleary ruling has already done a lot of good. I'm not seeing that. What good has this ruling done? The legislature is no closer to fully funding public K-12 education now than they were when the ruling was made. So what good has t
6-18-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Corrections and UpdatesCorrections I misspoke when I said that Jackie Bezos was Jeff Bezos' wife. She is his mother. She is the president of his family foundation. I reported that two members of the Advanced Learning Committee were at the C&I meeting last week but I missed the name of one person. That was Jeanne Thompson, the chair, who spoke at the meeting