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I remember reading about this a couple years ago, and wondering if it would make an impact. It has: colleges all over the country are offer...

Fun get-'em-speaking activity: hand each student two slips of paper, on which they're to write an open-ended question, any question ...

Thoughtful critics of the WASL would do well to examine Bergeson's apologia in yesterday's P-I . The notion of completely abandonin...

Is this proposal to go in-depth and compute what it'd take to fully fund education just another legislative "punt," or progre...

Pundits worldwide have claimed that with the therapy spot, the Geico caveman ads jumped the shark. Apparently, so has civilization : ABC sai...

Andrew Selby, responding to the Beeb's listener poll selecting the greatest philosophizers : Well, BBC listeners chose, surprisingly, Ka...

For Adam Morrison, that is--although the fact doesn't even merit a mention in the Times preview . (Redick's squad's race to the...

A ban on booing is a bad idea. Granted, some high school fans can be pretty obnoxious--just like college fans. And professional sports fa...

Yesterday I lamented the state of Public Forum , calling it "intellectually bankrupt." Today, the teacher/ref/poet approaches it ...

http://www.fedwaymirror.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=91&cat=23&id=844823&more= When Ricky Newton, a teacher at Totem Middle S...

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I spent the past three days at a national qualifying forensics tournament, hearing sad stories about how regional speech and debate programs...

State Senator Ken Jacobsen on chaos theory : "I'm into the theory of chaos. And in the theory of chaos, if this particle exists and...

Olympia's longstanding local joint is no more . Tony Roma, a fixture in Olympia cuisine since 1962, has abandoned his operation for a li...

As I mentally prepare for another day of judging speech and debate, I consider what I have learned so far: The average home costs only $40,0...

And here I was, dressing up to teach in a devil costume with red tights and a sweeping red cape. No wonder my students' standardized te...

Jeff Nusser sends word of an amendment that would exempt high schools from respecting full speech rights for high school journalists. At a...

This is the least tacky tie I own. I wore it while... 1. Teaching colons, dashes, and parentheses. 2. Correcting misspellings of "carni...

Morrison chilled in the worst way, going 0-5 from beyond the arc and 2-11 overall, ending with six points as the injury-riddled 'Cats ch...