Note to B. Gates - Education is NOT a Business
In a classic "aw shucks, we tried and keep in mind, education, if run like a business would do a lot better" interview, Bill Gates spoke with the Wall Street Journal. He somewhat humbly says, "It's been about a decade of learning." Kind of true but it's also been a decade of experimenting with other people's children. (But I think Bill, like a writer at Forbes who had writte
Seattle Schools This Week
Monday, January 20thNo School in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. DayWednesday, January 22ndSchool Board Meeting, starting at 4:15 pm. Agenda. Note: there is to be an Executive Session after the Board meeting for 30 minutes. Action Items- removal (basically) of open choice seats in high school from the New Student Assignment Plan Transition Plan for 2013-2014. I think this would be the beginni
1-18-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumComments and an Open Forum BlogWe can all feel this way sometimes. by Melissa Westbrook / 14h Friday Open ThreadFun math challenges via UW's Computer Science and Engineering department. Former School Board President Kay Smith-Blum will have her name on the scholarship wall at JSCEE via a constituent, Eleanor Towes, for Smith-Blum's se
