” said Jack Wislen, a senior at Lake Stevens High School, who is still trying to figure out what he’s going to do when he graduates but is thinking about careers that require less than a bachelor’s degree. “They ask you
Lope Yap, Jr., vice president of the Washington High School Alumni Association and a 1970 graduates, disagreed, saying when he was a student and saw the mural he was “awed by the subtle ways Arnautoff was able to critique American history.” He said the depictions are “treasures, pricel...
Yet there are no minimum federal standards for the tests that your child takes, even though such tests can decide whether that child is promoted to the next grade, is placed in a special-education or a gifted program, graduates from high school, is admitted to college or receives a "merit...
Other school districts have accomplished later high school start times by “flipping” the sequence of pick up, with elementary school children, for example, being switched to the earliest shift. Yet dislike of little children waiting in the morning dark for buses is apparently why rare school di...
UNCF’s mission is to build a robust and nationally-recognized pipeline of under-represented students who, because of UNCF support, become highly-qualified college graduates and to ensure that our network of member institutions is a respected model of best practice in moving students to and through...
Washington should consider not just what programs to support, but also what kinds of research to fund. As Elizabeth Austin details (“The Secret Lives of English Majors”), surprising recent data from the University of Texas system shows that Black and white humanities graduates earn roughly ...
Talk about come-ons from Iowa or Texas they ain’t in it with the childlike simplicity of these papers. It’s a wonder to me that more men don’t go into this kind of manufacturin’ industry. It has bigger profits generally than the green-goods business and none of the risks. And ...