Friday Open Thread
OSPI's Top Ten SBAC reasons - oh Arch Stanton, if you are out there, please make one for us. Good article in Education Week from former SPS CAO Carla Santorno , now superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools. And the biggest devil in the details is called "poverty". We have more social economic disparity than any other country. The difference between the "haves" and "haves not" in the U.S. is a gap unparalleled in the Western world. We are the most powerful and wealthy society in human history and yet somehow we have tolerated the discarding of a large portion of our children to lives of poverty. One of my principals at a high-poverty high school recounted that he recently took 15 freshmen to an exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, 40 minutes away, 30 miles. For 13 of the 15 students it was their first visit to Seattle. The Mayor is having a Youth Opportunity Summit on Saturday, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at Rai...