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I wish this message resonated louder and farther: you can have a perfectly excellent career without a four-year degree. Yes, you can : Thos...

Probably because I blogged about it , the terrible Senate Bill 5246 was voted down in the Senate yesterday. The legislation failed 19-28, ...

Washington State stands to lose $44 million in federal funds if the legislature fails to meet Obama Administration demands to include state ...

The Olympia School District will be able to return all its RIFed teachers this year, thanks to the new contract overwhelmingly ratified by t...

Up until now, negotiations over worker's compensation were the major holdup in Washington state's budget wrangling. No more: A pa...

WEA Chinook hosted an impromptu rally at the state capitol Tuesday, and about 110 teachers showed up to gather, mill about on the capitol ...

They're a little late to the party, but at least they have the story now. The Olympia School District is notifying 48 teachers this we...

For a while, I was writing about educational issues on three blogs--this one, 5/17 , and Washington Teachers . At the time, it made sense to...

Friday, OSD officials came to Capital High School to personally deliver RIF notices to six teachers, our rookie staff who find themselves in...

As announced yesterday, the Olympia School District is planning to send RIF notices to the 48 least senior teachers in the district. To un...

This afternoon, the Superintendent of the Olympia School District released a recommended list of budget cuts for the 2011-2012 school year ....

Near the Arctic Circle, Finland is ice cold. In educational circles, though, Finland is smoking hot, recently lauded by pundits as a model f...

Is it sad or awesome that it took a federal ruling to uphold a high school student's right to wear an awareness-generating bracelet that...

At the prompting of an attorney friend, I spent a good part of Saturday afternoon observing the YMCA Mock Trial state championship at the Th...

I totally had students do this. I had seen the Wikipedia list of misconceptions floating around Twitter, and figured it would be an inter...

It's one thing to believe stupid things when you're young. It's another to publish them for all the world to see. It's ano...

Jonathan Adler, critiquing a New York Times article on the ostensible rise of plagiarism, writes : The problem is not that academic standa...

When assessing a student's learning, a teacher has to overcome at least two epistemic barriers. The first is obvious: as teacher, I have...

The University of Washington has a new research facility dedicated to cracking open the skulls of children and revealing the gooey knowledge...

Freud was wrong about just about everything. One thing he got partly right, though: the death drive, most prevalent in middle school studen...