Jazz and spaghetti will be offered at Stanwood High School Mon, Jan. 30, 5:30 p.m., with the spaghetti feed hosted by Stanwood Band Boosters. The event is to raise funds to send the SHS Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band to the Vancouver Music Festival. Music starts at 7 p.m. with performances by Stanwood Middle...
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Apple Inc., expanding its ambitions in education, joined the race to sell digital textbooks, hoping to get students to trade their book bag for an iPad. The electronics company unveiled a new version of its iBooks digital book store that supports textbooks featuring quizzes, note-taking, study cards and other features, like the ability to...
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by Norman W Wilson, PhD The Center on Education Policy issued a report (December 14, 2011) which states, “Nearly half of America’s public schools didn’t meet federal achievement standards this year, making the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No-Child Left Behind Law took effect a decade ago.” Kevin Spac, Newser staff reporter, has...
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Stanwood, which has won the Hi-Q academic quiz competition four times since Hi-Q started in 1976, hosts the Jan. 20 competition and also competes in Hi-Q matches Feb. 7 and Feb. 28. Semi-finals are set for April 16 and finals are scheduled for April 19. Stanwood’s Hi-Q team includes Tyler Ferrara, Colleen Salmon, Erik...
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California parents will pull the trigger today on a low-performing elementary school in Adelanto, a Mojave Desert town east of Los Angeles. Nearly 70 percent of parents at Desert Trails Elementary have signed a petition demanding the school district negotiate changes in the school or turn over control. via Parents use charter threat to...
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The revolution in American education is moving much faster than most of us understand. Now the Chronicle of Higher Education is singing the praises of a new trend toward achievement “badges” modeled on those earned by Boy Scouts as an alternative to the expensive and cumbersome degree system that could provide education credentials to...
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I’ve never been so conscious of what my kids looked like as I am when I walk around the world with them during school hours. Most of the time I think people assume the kid is sick, or we are tourists in a town of no tourist activiites so we are forced toward the...
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by Norman W Wilson, PhD Earlier, this month Donna Gordon Blankinship (Associated Press) reported Washington State Senator Rodney Tom (D-Medina) as saying that “charter schools have proven to be effective in every state.” He plans to introduce a bill that would allow for public charter schools in this state. Evidently, Senator Tom has not...
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Declaring that traditional methods have failed, a bipartisan group of lawmakers formally introduced a pair of bills Thursday that could shake up education policy in the state — if they survive what is sure to be a contentious debate. The proposals would allow charter schools into the state, establish a process for failing schools...
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This morning the Senate Health and Long-Term Care committee heard details about a proposed plan that would overhaul the healthcare benefit system for nearly 200,000 public school employees. via Proposed benefit plan would raise premiums for K-12 public school employees.
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