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To graduate, skills need to be hard and soft.

Topics: Washington |

The Results Are In From The PFL Survey

You took a few minutes to take Partnership for Learning's first annual survey. We heard you and thank you for taking the time.

Ten Ways to Reduce the College Admissions Stress

Now, you still may be stressed with the admission's process, but less so after reading this.  

While Kids Work Jobs, Enjoy the Sun, Parents Travel to Colleges.


Teacher Gives Out Medals to Kids to Remind Them to Keep At It

In a marathon, it's not that you come in first, but that you finish. This is a good story from The Everett Herald about that concept.


WASL Primer, WASL Fights

Topics: Washington | Legislature | OSPI | WASL |

Writing for Science Translates Into Good Writing Period

Deb Schochet, a third-grade teacher at Olympic View Elementary School in North Seattle patiently binged the xylophone one more time.


Pasco Is Doing Hand Stands; So are 19 Other High Schools In State

This after reading Newsweek's May 28 edition which gives their annual list of the country's 1,000 best high schools.

P-20 Council Formed. Okay, Now What?


One Baltimore School Struggles to Get Tests Scores Up

This is an interesting NPR piece on a Baltimore high school's effort to raise test scores. There are voices on both sides of the debate here. Some say that the method this high school is using (pulling kids out of class to study for the Maryland test) is wrong, while others are saying that the test is in fact, too easy, and the kids should be able to pass it without extra help.

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