Do you want the same to happen in Washington State? Original article at Western Journal Business owners, beware of students with high school diplomas from Oregon. They may not be able to read or do basic math. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, in 2020, the Oregon Department of Education suspended the “essential skills” requirement to accommodate students who had fallen behind because of school shutdowns and online learning — or so they said. The state changed letter grades to a pass-incomplete system. There were little to no attendance requirements, and the essential skills requirements were suspended, according to OPB. Although the suspension was supposed to … [Read more...]
Washougal School District Feb 2023 Levy’s
Washougal School District has two (2) items on your February 2023 special ballot. The first is a new EP&O Levy and the other is a new CAPITAL LEVY FOR TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH, AND SAFETY. IN this article we'll share links to the elections department, the School district and provide some analysis to try and clear up any gray areas. If you don't want to click the links and do a deep dive we'll share the essentials below. Let's get started. Clark County Elections Dept link: EP&O Levy statement(Proposition 10): … [Read more...]
Evergreen School District – Won’t take NO for an answer
The Evergreen school district went to the voters in February asking for a new Operations Levy to supplement the state money. It failed. But the district and school board don't agree with a NO vote so they come back again just 2 months later. Today we bring you an opinion piece by a local resident who thinks that NO means NO. The Evergreen School District is attempting another voter approved levy just 2 months after 57.2% of the voters rejected their last levy February 8th (by over 3,600 votes). They say it is not an increase and although the levy rate is the same as the current levy, that is disingenious thanks to the ever increasing property values (11% average increase this year) … [Read more...]
This 1897 Text Gives 3 Clues Why Today’s Students Can’t Write
Do things change over time? Today's article was originally published in November 2015 at Intellectual Takeout by Annie Holmquest. So 6+ years later and has anything changed? Should it have? Why not? What will you do about it? Last week the Nation’s Report Card announced that no more than 40% of America’s 4th and 8th graders are proficient in reading and math. Those are scary numbers, but the numbers for writing are even more frightening: only 27% of American 8th and 12th graders attained proficiency. Why are American students such terrible writers? Several answers to this question dawned on me while reading through an 1897 text by Dr. Edwin Lewis. Entitled A First Book in Writing … [Read more...]
Running for and winning school board races – critical to saving K-12 education in America
Let's be honest. Liberals/Progressives dominate school board director positions in K-12 education across America. They impact curriculum choice, textbook choice, programs including Social Emotional Learning (S.E.L.); PBIS (Positive Behavioral Intervention Service) and others. Comprehensive Sec Ed (CSE) pushing gender issues on children starting in kindergarten. These programs get approved by the school board directors. They are the brains behind the massive decline in education. Critical Race Theory. White Privilege. White Fragility Theory. When did schools move from teaching math, communications, science, history and other core topics and start to feed, cloth, provide medical care … [Read more...]
Preparedness tip: Homeschool curriculum ideas
This article is shared from the August 14th edition of Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief. It is a subscription newsletter ($4/month) that you may want to consider. The web address is: https://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/ This was shared by Ron Higgins who ran for State Superintendent of Schools in 2016 and again in 2020. Ron can be reached at: https://www.higgins4spi.com/ Homeschooling resources are now so vast it will make your head spin. Here are some of the resources we have found useful over the years. Choosing curriculum: Cathy Duffy has an excellent website to search curriculum based on many criteria including subject, grade level, type of resource, teaching style, etc. … [Read more...]
Study: Historic Drop in U.S. Reading and Math Scores Since Common Core ‘Debacle’
When we started this blog nearly 4 1/2 years ago our first focus was on Common Core. Indeed, we have run over 220 articles on the subject: https://swweducation.org?cat=61 Today we bring you a new study that, again, shows conclusively, that Common Core has been an unmitigated disaster by harming the education of our children while running up billions of dollars in expenses. This study was published at the Pioneer Institute on April 27, 2020: https://pioneerinstitute.org/academic-standards/study-finds-historic-drop-in-national-reading-and-math-scores-since-adoption-of-common-core-curriculum-standards/ What does the study bring to light? The pdf version of the study can be downloaded at … [Read more...]
Grade Schools: New Leftist Frontlines
On October 9th 2019 we ran an article about the move of Seattle schools to use math to teach revisionist history...that's right math won't really be math...it will be leftist history in it's place: https://swweducation.org?p=6170 On October 22nd 2019 a story titled: Seattle Public Schools Want to Teach Social Justice in Math Class. That Hurts Minorities ran at National Review. On December 30th 2019 NPR ran another article pulling together examples of liberal/progressive groups and organizations making efforts across the nation: Grade Schools: New Leftist Frontlines The author is Marina Medvin. That is the article we bring you today. For decades we have said that there is a … [Read more...]
Re-imagining K-12 education
K-12 education has become a quagmire of social, emotional, health, nutrition, gender and other focuses such that the core of education has faded into the background. A number of demands come from Federal and State government entities; some come from special interest groups and others are local decisions. It’s time to strip everything away from education as we currently know it and rebuild from the ground up. The focus should be on helping students learn what they need to live in tomorrows world and to fulfill their interests and develop skills and knowledge that will make them productive, confident and happy people. This doesn’t mean producing robots who are programed. This doesn’t mean … [Read more...]
Portrait of a Problem: A Detroit Valedictorian Struggles to Pass Remedial Math at a State University. What’s the (Common) Core Issue?
Washington State adopted Common Core and rolled out the first testing in 2014. The test scores have been poor and are not getting better. Math is one of the sections of Common Core that has been an unmitigated failure...but...OSPI and our State Superintendent of Schools, Chris Reykdal, is hell-bent on continuing to push it. They will tell you that they changed the name to make it sound less like Common Core but it's still a massive failure. Since this blog has been running we've run 219 articles about Common Core. You can find them here: https://swweducation.org?cat=61 Today we bring you an article that highlights the penultimate failure...a Valedictorian struggles with math. If the best … [Read more...]
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