Friday Open Thread
Very disturbing study from Georgetown Law's Center on Poverty and Inequality:
What girls want have come a long way since The Spice Girls asked that question 20 years ago - good for Victoria Beckham. Girls and women want equal rights to men and for some men to quit abusing/exploiting/holding down women and girls. (Although Cindi Lauper was right - girls do just want to have fun.)
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Adults view young black girls as less innocent than white girls of the same age, a new study has found, indicating that children’s race may affect how their actions are perceived.Speaking of better understanding, summer reading ideas for your woke kid from NPR.
“This new evidence of what we call the ‘adultification’ of black girls may help explain why black girls in America are disciplined much more often and more severely than white girls – across our schools and in our juvenile justice system.”
What girls want have come a long way since The Spice Girls asked that question 20 years ago - good for Victoria Beckham. Girls and women want equal rights to men and for some men to quit abusing/exploiting/holding down women and girls. (Although Cindi Lauper was right - girls do just want to have fun.)
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http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/at-leschi-elementary-equity-conversations-are-common-among-teachers-parents-and-increasingly-students/
It seems that things are working out there and that kids are benefiting from the Montessori and contemporary mix.
HP
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2017/07/05/teachers-arizona-work-multiple-jobs-make-ends-meet/413110001/
DWE
And I'm not trying to start a debate about what should happen with the Fort Lawton site in Magnolia - I'm genuinely curious about whether two additional high schools will be enough - or if a 3rd is needed. And if a 3rd high school is needed, is Magnolia the right spot given that the district is planning on opening schools opening in Wallingford (Lincoln) and lower Queen Anne (Center).
Jane
I'll have to try to find out what department the "University of Washington seminars" came from. Kind of odd that isn't clear in the story.
Jane
Inslee vetoed the section of the budget that would prohibit teachers from increased pay related to advanced degrees. Not sure how Seattle is going to make up for loss of levy dollars for special education which amounts to $44M, either.
C3
In the 2013-14 school year, which is what the article discussed, about 3.8% of Washington state students were suspended or expelled.
That year there were 1,140,601 students and 3.8% of them (or 43,275 students) were suspended or expelled.
Of those suspensions or expulsions the percentages of the suspended/expelled students who were:
Black 8.6%
Special Ed 7.4%
Low income 5.7%
Hispanic 4.5%
Multiracial 4.3%
White 3.2%
Asian 1.3%
The district has taken some steps to improve equity on this front, but it is a pernicious national problem and not easy for one school district to just up and fix.
I've only heard the use at Leschi and Daniel Bagley, both of which have Montessori programs. My guess is using "Gen Ed" when the other school option is Montessori made it feel like one program was better than the other. I have to admit that I think of Gen Ed as the high school option to AP coursework, and I would bet that I'm not alone in that unfair comparison. Bagley (as I remember) tries to emphasize that there isn't better or worse, just a different approach between the two programs and a right fit for the student.
IQ scores sychronize, too. Shocking...I am sooo shocked. Thanks, MW, for your Part One gifted thread that brought my blood pressure down. I can't even respond since you told me not not to mention HCC. I have always been a good follower. I was a good student and still am.
I love it because it confirms why this blog's readers (and I know more than a few of the regular posters) are sooooo tired of "those people's" historical traumas and the way they slow. our. progency. dowm. Thanks for saying FWIW has a stick up "their" ass, MW. What a loser! Sad! Teaching for decades and hasn't learned squat. LOL!!!
Some of us were in our late thirties and forties and all that when we had kids. LOL! TMI!!! Watch "South Pacific" if you are hopeless. Seriously...
Believe me, it is possible. And they will be in HCC if you are not in the one percent, live in "privatized school" Seattle families (Lakeside is a sore spot, esp. with Gates' thing about diversity or whatever), and/or have the poor misfortune to be reading this blog right now. Or, especiaaly, if you are Black or Hispanic or the wrong type of Asian. But MW's gifted percentages will give you a good night's sleep.
ChrisK
-NEW SPS MOM
• Half of the school-readiness gap between poor and affluent children is already evident by age 2, before most kids ever get to preschool
• While all kids benefit from preschool, poor and disadvantaged kids often make the most gains.
• Pre-K programs today can also do a better job reaching out to low income families dealing with stress and mental health issues.
• Children who are dual-language learners "show relatively large benefits from pre-K education" — both in their English-language proficiency and in other academic skills.
• Another major hurdle is the disconnect between pre-K and elementary education. Rather than building on the skills that kids arrive with, researchers have found lots of redundancy with kindergarten and first-grade teachers repeating a lot of what pre-K teachers do. This results in what researchers call "dead zones" that squander hard-won gains.
Is there anything Common Core gets right?
-- Dan Dempsey
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