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So you've been asked to run extemp prep. It's daunting. You have to post panels (rooms and speaking order) and topics (three per s...

I wasn't aware that registration is part of the process, but I guess it makes sense.

1. It's good. 2. It's often free. 3. It comes backed with the best warranty in the business. 4. It's honest. 5. It's safe. 6...

The WEA is steamed about HB 1410 (2009-10) , all 111 ed-reforming pages of it. (Really. You want to read the entirety of the 111-page bill ?...

Belt-tightening times mean smaller portions. That doesn't mean you have to give up flavor, though, when you're dining in Olympia. ...

This morning, I went with a group of CHS teachers to observe at Bush Middle School in Tumwater. We braved the snow and ice to watch eighth-...

After a long time thinking about it, and after reading Radley Balko's latest , I'm pretty much convinced that the War on Drugs is th...

Taken tonight, as sleet combined with a bright light and curved branches to create a spiderweb-like tree--mere hours after I had read this a...

Sometimes students ask, Don't you have any normal ties? No. I don't. [Originally posted here .]

In today's email, teachers received news from Superintendent Bill Lahmann that the upcoming fiscal implosion at the state level is going...

Deep in an article describing three fish that, though radically different in appearance, are actually members of the same species, is a poig...

Put that modifier in the proper place. Or else: After the flub heard around the world, President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office...

Dianne Feinstein, emcee Energetic and smiling, she gets in the best line of the day: "This was the moment when the dream that once ech...

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy I say that as a grateful teacher of speech, debate, and rhetoric...

Jerry Cornfield is confused. Randy Dorn pledged to toss out the WASL if elected to run Washington's public schools. He won the job of su...

My wife and I are nerds, who, almost superfluously, enjoy playing Scrabble. Case in point: the Anderson re-wedding of ought-five had a Scrab...

What are some of the most interesting cases you've encountered while debating the Jan/Feb international criminal court resolution ? Lis...

I think Olympia just might be the only place you can live where, after the last debater has gone home and you're trying to drive through...

Suppose it turns out that, legally speaking, acts sanctioned by the Bush administration at Guantanamo constitute torture. Actually, you don...

Regarding the current resolution , a reader writes: I'm really struggling with this topic, but I think I have an idea for a case. Howeve...