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Tuesday Open Thread
A reminder about the Seattle International Film Festival's showing of the public education documentary, Backpack Full of Cash.This sobering documentary by Sarah Mondale, narrated by actor Matt Damon, explores the rising trend among many higher-income, socially conservative parents who want to spend their child's "backpack full of cash"—their lifetime allotment of public-education dollars—at whichever school they choose. Mondale investigates schools across the country, visiting similar charter-schools, where eight-year-olds in Nashville are given dozens of standardized tests in a school year, or in New Orleans, where tax dollars are being siphoned from cash-strapped public schools to teach creationism as scientific fact. Backpack Full of Cash is a wake-up call for those who believe high-quality public education should be available to people of all incomes and races and should not be left to the "free market" to decide.Tonight at Pacific Place at 7 pm. Wednesday at Pacific Place at 4:30 pm. The director and the producer will be in attendance at both these showings.
Big shout-out to former Times education reporter, Brian Rosenthal, who took the Education Writers Association's top award this year. This is a reporter going places. He now writes for the New York Times.
The Education Writers Association is delighted to honor “Denied: How Texas Keeps Tens of Thousands of Children Out of Special Education,” an investigative series from the Houston Chronicle, with the top prize in the 2016 National Awards for Education Reporting. This year’s Fred M. Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting will go to the reporter behind the series – Brian Rosenthal.Speaking of awards, from SPS Twitter (and check out that photo - what a line-up of young women):
“This was such a flawlessly done series,” wrote one of the award competition’s judges. “It took drive, guts and a lot of tough reporting on a topic that affects thousands of special-education children in Texas,” wrote another judge.
Congratulations to all our students who took part in the 19th Annual Middle School Science & Engineering Fair last week at the Museum of Flight! I love that the judging was broken down, not just by project but by aspects of the projects: Best Data Analysis Award, Most Likely to Be Patented Award, Best Use of Engineering for Humanitarian Purposes, Best Environmental Sustainability Project Award, Relentless Investigator Award, Most Thought Provoking Project, MacGyver Award for Equipment Ingenuity, Everyday Relevance and Best Field Study Project Award.
Also from SPS Communications:
The Washington State Library (WSL) has announced the winners of the 2017 Refreshing School Libraries grants. The purpose of the grant is to help bolster schools’ nonfiction collections, supports the Common Core Standards and satisfies student needs. This year eight of our schools have been awarded the refreshing school libraries grant. Each school will be able to purchase up to $2,000 in nonfiction books.Also about science, an interesting article from the New York Times about pushback in the classroom about climate change. Ask your student about what's happening in their own classroom.
The seven schools selected this year are Dunlap, Emerson Elementary, Franklin High School, Mercer International Middle School, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, Wing Luke Elementary, and Beacon Hill International School.
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher’s lessons on climate change seemed explicitly designed to provoke her.What's on your mind?
So she provoked him back.
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