A conversation with Seattle
“Being smart is difficult in my situation,” she says. She has moved to the city to attend school, and away from her parents and younger sister who live in a low-resource rural community. She now lives in a crammed studio space with her brother, sister-in-law, and toddler-aged niece. Shanta sits at her “desk,” the edge of the family’s shared bed. Continue reading Seattle Documentary Filmmakers Talk About a Subject’s Suicide
It could be you, if you can establish a legal standing for your dispute with the constitutionality of charter school initiative I-1240. It could be Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn. “Dorn says he’s weighing a court challenge and has an inquiry about it in to the state attorney general’s office,” reports KPLU’s Gabriel Spitzer. Continue reading Who Will be First to Sue Over Charter Schools Initiative 1240?
Now, to be sure, the survey is based on “the level of sexual health information and resources available to students on campus,” not what the students are up to, so don’t have a conniption, parents. This isn’t a referendum on that “hook-up” culture you’ve read about in your glossy magazines. Continue reading What’s Behind UW’s Lame Ranking in Campus Sex Health Survey
“If kids come home from school and talk about what they did at school today and parents talk about what they did–and they both participated in the ShakeOut–it can lead a great discussion about how well the family is prepared, and encourages them to follow through on anything they still need to do to.” Continue reading The Great Washington ShakeOut, an Earthquake Drill, Set for Thursday Morning
Many parents, looking at tuition costs that resemble home mortgages, might want to punch these experts in the mouth. Is it really so hard to imagine that students from Washington’s less wealthy counties might hesitate at the prospect of, three months out of high school, signing on to a four-year hitch that will leave them $40,000 in debt? Continue reading Why Johnny Can’t Afford a Washington State College Degree
Move over, neurotypicals, Dr. Temple Grandin has some advice on the education of children with autism. If you have any exposure at all to autism literature, you’ll have heard of Grandin. Or, for that matter, if you have done any reading in the humane transportation and handling of animals on their way to be slaughtered. Continue reading Autism Education Basics, According to Temple Grandin
The Seattle Public Library’s new Museum Pass program lets you use your library card to check out free museum passes. You’re allowed one pass per week to any participating museum, but you have to wait 30 days to go back to one you’ve already visited. (It’s one pass per library card, as well.) Continue reading Seattle Public Library Now Lets You Check Out a Museum (Pass) for Free